Photography: Fast Shutter Speeds
With the shutter speed you control the duration of the image sensor to incident light. If you set the shutter speed as short as possible, the shutter remains open for a short period and it is a little light on the image sensor. As a short shutter speed refers to exposure times that are smaller than 1/60 seconds.
- You want to shoot fast movements such as sporting events, you should set a fast shutter speed. Moving moments of short duration are frozen by the short exposure times.
- With an extremely short shutter speed of 1/2000 seconds, for example, drops of water can hold, which cannot be seen with naked eyes.
- A big advantage of short exposure times is that camera shake is ruled out.
Shutter speed: motives freezing
Photography: Slow Shutter Speeds
Long shutter speeds will cause much light strikes the image sensor. The aperture remains open for a long time. The exposure times are greater than 1/60 seconds.
- Long shutter speed used in low light conditions for example when shooting at night or consciously deliberate blur. Fast movement can be blurred with long exposure times, blurred and dynamic.
- Note that when shooting with long shutter speeds to blur. You should therefore use always a tripod.
- You choose a shutter speed that is shorter than the reversal value of the selected focal length. This means that you should set at a focal length of 60 mm, a shutter speed of 1/60 seconds or shorter to avoid camera shake.
Photo blurred dynamically
In the next tip we will give you tips for getting started in photography with a mirror reflex camera.
