What is shutter speed? Photography tutorial for DSLR beginners)

• Portaits: 1/125 of a second
• Action shots: 1/400 of a second
• Long exposure waterfall: 15s
• Blurred traffic car lights: 4s
• To shoot action images, where you want to freeze movement, more light is needed.
• To shoot images on a longer shutter speed, you’ll want a darker setting like night time.
• The quicker your shutter speed, ex. 1/800, less light is let in.
• The slower your shutter speed, ex. 30, more light is let in.
• In a consistent lighting enviornment, if you change the shutter, you’ll need to compensate by changing either the Aperture or ISO.

Introduction to Shutter Speed in Photography)

• Outside of using shutter speed to blur or sharpen an image, it can be used to control the brightness of a photo.
• Quick shutter speeds: 1/100 and lower
• Slow shutter speeds: 1s and higher.
• It is suggested that as a beginner, when you want to adjust your shutter, you shoot in Shutter Priority, so that while you change yourshutter, your camera will automatically select your shutter.
• Astrophotography: 10-25 seconds.
• Flash photography: 1/200s.
• Macro Photography: 1/320s