Shutter Speed

Today we had fun with the shutter speed and learned how u can make the objects and the background look sharp with different setting.

Here everything about the shutter speeds.

The 3 camera settings that comprise the Exposure Triangle are shutter speed, aperture & ISO.

On the back monitor of our Canon DSLR cameras, the aperture setting is displayed with “F” followed by a number.  

Apertures (from smallest openings to largest openings) are typically numbers f/2, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11, f/16, f/22, f/32

The shutter speed settings are shown on the top left on the back monitor. 

Expressed as fractions of a second, the shortest or highest shutter speed on our cameras is 1/4000 seconds and the longest or slowest shutter speed is 30'' seconds.

The third setting ISO controls the camera’s sensitivity to light. 

This setting goes from 100,200,400,800,1600,3200,6400 on our cameras.

Here some photos I took with different shutter speeds.

Me spinning around the class

This one I took of myself spinning around really fast and capturing the background really blur and myself looking sharp.

The shutter speed I used for this one was 1/50 and the ISO is 6400 for the aperture I used f/11

Water splash

In this picture I used help for a person to throw a rock in the water to have the splash effect and I used a high shutter speed to catch the water particles in the air and make it look like it freeze.

For this one the ISO I used was 1600, for the aperture it was f/7.1, and for the shutter speed I used 1/4000 to catch the timing of the splash perfectly.

This photo i took with a tripod so that it can stay perfectly still to make the effect of a flash, as if she ran fast into that position.

Honey with a blur trail

In this picture I used an ISO of 400, the Shutter speed was about 4 sec. so that Honey has enough time to make the blur trail effect, and I use and aperture of f/16. But what was the most important thing for this photo is to get a dark background so that the trail can be see.