A Guide to Adjusting Shutter Speed Learn Everything You Need to Know
April 17th 2011 Posted at Senior Living
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Changing the shutter speed of your camera is something everybody should know.If you don’t know how to do this you’re going to have a difficult time with photography. Let’s say you wanted to take photographs of athletes at a sports event. Set up your shutter speed the wrong way and all of your photographs will have motion blur in them.So what will it take for you to avoid this? What shutter speed will you need for fast moving objects and what setting do you have to use for slow movement? You’ll find out in this article.What does a shutter do anyway?A shutter is a device that controls how long your sensor or photographic film will be exposed to light. Take a setting of four seconds for example. If you set your camera up so that it has a shutter speed of four seconds the sensor or the film in yo 50thwedding anniversary invitations ur camera is going to be exposed to light for four seconds. Remember that as long the shutter is open there is light coming in. Any object that moves in front of the camera in while the shutter is open will create motion blur. Shutters aren’t the only things that control how much light is coming in your camera. The second thing is the aperture.What does it take to get decent photographs then?The answer to that question depends on what type of camera you own. If you own a simple compact camera then it probably won’t let you change the shutter speed. Digital single-lens reflex cameras or DSLRs on the other hand allow you to change virtually everything. Putting your camera to tv-mode ( if you own a Canon) or in s-mode ( if you own a Nikon) is the simplest way to changing the speed of the shutter.