Shutter Speed
What is shutter speed?
This is how quickly the shutter opens and closes. The longer the shutter speed, the more light gets into the camera.
A short shutter speed will freeze things without much motion, so you can photograph fast moving things like cars or animals.
A long shutter speed would capture movement, and the image would look blurred. This is useful to show movement or speed. Imagine your camera is like a window with shutters that open and close. Aperture is the size of the window. If it’s bigger more light gets through and the room is brighter. Shutter Speed is the amount of time that the shutters of the window are open. The longer you leave them open the more that comes in. Now imagine that you’re inside the room and are wearing sunglasses. Your eyes become desensitized to the light that comes in (it’s like a low ISO).
A short shutter speed will freeze things without much motion, so you can photograph fast moving things like cars or animals.
A long shutter speed would capture movement, and the image would look blurred. This is useful to show movement or speed. Imagine your camera is like a window with shutters that open and close. Aperture is the size of the window. If it’s bigger more light gets through and the room is brighter. Shutter Speed is the amount of time that the shutters of the window are open. The longer you leave them open the more that comes in. Now imagine that you’re inside the room and are wearing sunglasses. Your eyes become desensitized to the light that comes in (it’s like a low ISO).
1/500
1/2
In the photo above I used 1/200 for the shutter speed and since the shutter opened and closed really fast it looks like the photo is frozen and nothing is moving.
In the photo above I used a slow shutter speed which was 1/5 and when the photo was taken the shutter took a bit of time between opening and closing so the person in the photo is moving.