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there aren't many better ways to capture a moment in time than taking a great

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photo but how do you do this when that moment passes in the blink of an eye and

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the photo you took comes out super blurry or what if you want to capture a

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sense of movement in a photo but you don't want it to look like one giant

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smear this is where knowing how to properly

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adjust your camera's shutter speed can be the key to getting your shots perfect

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along with aperture and iso which we previously covered here on techwiki

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shutter speed is one of the three key exposure variables that will affect how

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a picture looks shutter speed is simply a measure of how

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long the cameras you guessed it shutter

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stays open to let light through unlike aperture which is a measure of

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how wide the shutter opens and iso which

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controls the sensitivity to light the shutter speed directly affects how long

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the camera will physically see whatever

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it's pointed at meaning that if you have two cameras pointing at the same moving

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object but with significantly different shutter speeds the two pictures will

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come out looking dramatically different

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why is this well if you have your camera set to a

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slow shutter speed the shutter will be open long enough to capture a fast

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moving object traveling from one place to another and since you're recording a

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still image not a video which is comprised of

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multiple still images this will just come out as a blur a fast shutter speed

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on the other hand will open and close so quickly that you won't see much motion

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at all just like it's harder for you to perceive something as actually moving if

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you open and shut your eyes very very quickly so the result then is a frozen

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moment captured in the photo without blurring now typically shutter speeds

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are measured in fractions of a second with speeds between 1 60th of a second

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and 1 250th of a second being common for

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everyday photography such as landscape shots or casual portraits of your

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friends but what if you're getting shots of something like a basketball game where

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the players are running up and down the court or you're doing nature photography

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and need to capture a fast-moving bird or wildcat

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this is where much quicker shutter speeds come in handy to prevent blurring

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and higher end cameras can have shutter speeds as quick as 1 4 000

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or 1 8 000 of a second and some highly

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specialized cameras can even handle one sixteen thousandth of a setting that can

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capture really cool shots like a bullet

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as it travels through the air well hold on a second then

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our fast shutter times always the best thing then

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well although slow shutter speeds can produce

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undesirable blur in some situations in

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others they can produce really cool effects that you just can't get any

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other way have you ever seen those shots of cities

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at night where highway traffic just looks like long red and white streaks

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those were produced by using long shutter speeds of two seconds or even

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longer because while things like buildings and street signs will stay in

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one place the cars are obviously moving

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meaning that you can get those cool light streaks without making the city

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around them look blurry slow shutter speeds are also useful for making

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waterfalls look like they're moving without affecting the rest of the photo

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and even showing the movement of stars across the night sky where a shutter

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might be open for hours at a time just

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make sure you're using a really stable tripod or something else to keep your

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camera in one place so that final shot looks crisp and sharp another thing to

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keep in mind is that shutter speed affects the amount of light hitting your

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image sensor so make sure that you're adjusting your

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iso and your aperture to compensate if you're going to be experimenting with

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really fast or really slow shutter speeds but once you master shutter speed

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you'll be able to do some extremely cool things with your camera if you're in the

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right place at the right time you might even get some sick shots of taryn

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pulling off stunts on his razer scooter

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