What Is Shutter Speed When Taking Photos?steemCreated with Sketch.

in hive-185836 •  3 years ago 

Very simple question, right? However, I was surprised how many people know nothing about endurance and how to choose it.

The camera has a shutter. During photography, the shutter opens briefly and light penetrates the photographic material. Once the photographic material was a film, now it is a matrix. So shutter speed is the time at which the shutter opens.

To get a good quality photo, you need enough light. Therefore, when it is dark, more exposure time is needed, when there is a lot of light, the exposure time should be lower. Here everything is simple.

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Photo with a shutter speed of 25 s. Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/ilfsT5p_qvA

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Photo with a shutter speed of 1/1250 s. Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/A3Mllpu6ECo

However, there are moving objects. The higher the speed of the object, the more blurred it appears in the photo. Therefore, the exposure time must be reduced to capture a dynamic subject. The higher the speed of the object, the lower the exposure time should be.

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Photo with a shutter speed of 9 s. The author deliberately wanted to get blurred objects. Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/dPgPoiUIiXk

Smaller, bigger… but how much specifically? There are certain conditional values. For example, many sources provide a shutter speed of 1/128 for shooting a walking person; 1/250 - for shooting the runner, 1/500 - for shooting the cyclist; 1/1000 - for shooting car racing. But all this is very conditional. Don't be afraid to experiment.

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Photo with a shutter speed of 1/500 s. Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/VZEj0iepzKA

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Photo with a shutter speed of 1/1250 s. Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/Io2Zgb3_kdk

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Photo with a shutter speed of 1/2000 s. Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/6neOO6DmkiY

If you are shooting landscapes and use a big exposure time, it is better to use a tripod. So the camera will be fixed throughout the shooting time. Yes, modern cameras have stabilizers. However, the stabilizer reduces oscillations, not completely eliminates them.

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Photo with a shutter speed of 20 s. Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/6O4zf9lga6Q

I hope this simple information came in handy.

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