What is shutter speed?

What is shutter speed?

It is the amount of time that you use to let the light in to your
camera so you can take the photograph. When I use my camera I can have my shutter speed as fast as 1/4000th of a second and as long as 30 seconds to take a photograph, after about 1/125th of a second you will get a creative effect.

You can use a tripod to steady the camera from moving and produce a clean photo, as humans we can not stay still for long, so you may have the creative photo before the 1/125th of a second point or under that point, but you can work with it.

You can start making art with the longer shutter speeds, all you have to do is start to play with your ideas and the lights. For example you can make a car look like it is not moving and the background is moving around it. All you have to do is match the speed of the car and move your camera along with it. It will take a little playing around because you have to see how fast that car is going and you have to match the speed very closely to your camera to make this work.

If you want the car and the background looking like it is not moving all you have to do is make a faster shutter speed faster from 1/125th of a second you do not have to play with this as much but if you are around the 1/125th of a second you may still get the picture that you want.

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What is an F-stop?

The term F-stop is telling you how big the opening in your shutter is.
In other words it is telling you how big your depth of field is in your photograph.

The hole in the lens gets bigger or smaller and that determines your depth of field.

On some lenses they have put the F-numbers on the outside of the lens circumference, so you can change the f-stop with a manual camera. This was started in the 1960’s. But if your lens doesn’t have that feature, you’ll have to use the camera settings to change the f-stop for the same results. (See your camera’s user manual for this info).

In some systems there are steps in between the stops……they can get down to 1/3 stop. So you have finer control over the photograph that you take.

Focus Areas:

F/22 smallest aperture, the most depth of field, F5.6 middle aperture the middle depth of field, F/2 largest aperture the less depth of field.

This post is on aperture and it has two parts to it…

#1) F-number or F-stop, it’s how big the hole in the lens is. Think of it as your eye….however, you’ll have to think how big the hole will have to be to get the shot you’re looking for.

The F-stop starts at F1.2 and goes up to F22 for most lenses. So what this means to you is the lower the F-stop the more light gets in to your camera and the higher it goes the less light gets into your camera.

This works with depth of field which I love to work with the smaller the better for me.
Depth of field is the area in the photo which is in focus and anything before or after is not in focus. It is a great way to single out an object in your photo.

Note depth of field is not a part of aperture just a effect of the F-stop.

#2) Shutter speed… with my Nikon D50 you can get as fast as 1/4000th of one second or as slow as 30 sec and if you want to get more speed you just have to put it on “bulb” and that will keep the shutter open as long or as short as you like it to be… To freeze motion you need to have a speed around 1/125 of a second.

With the shutter speed you can get very cool looking photographs starting at 1/125 of a second.
To get the zoom effect or what I call the crazy light effect see photograph for crazy light. you need to have a slower shutter speed and zoom in and out with the camera capturing the photo.  You’ll need to play with this one…… the kind of day and what time you try this one will make a big difference on the shutter speed and the light getting in your camera and you may have too much light hitting the charge-coupled device (CCD) or CMOS…

Tips for Beginners…

By Justin Dart

It really doesn’t matter what brand of camera you have in your hands, what really matters is that you know how to use it.

One of the 1st things that I was told in school is to take a lots of photos and do not delete any of them, because you may think it is a bad photo when you do take it, but infact it may be one of your best photo’s of the day…

Since most cameras are digital it is not as costly to save all of your photos and when you run out of space you can always download it to your computer and make a copy on a CD,DVD or Blue-ray.

This brings me to my next tip, which is back up at least 2 times a 1/2 hour…

One copy on your computer, one on a device. Believe me, when your hard drive dies you will be thinking I should have backed up and at that time… It will be to late.

My last tip for this posting is, you may want to get a program called “gimp” it’s a free download. It has more to it than “windows photo viewer” on a windows pc. The home page is at http://www.gimp.org/ and it is an opened source program…

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