Shutter Speed As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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1,081 words · ~5 min read
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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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