Sunday, June 29, 2008

Control your Speed!!!

Dramatic impact in photography can be achieved by controlling Shutter Speed of your camera. Shutter speed measured in seconds. Unit of stops up and stops down on each value will half or double is used. Shutter speed can be 1 sec, ½ sec, ¼ sec, 1/8 sec, 1/16 sec and so on.

High shutter speed may be required to capture fast moving objects like car in motion or running man. High shutter speed may be required while taking photograph in bright light so less amount of light on sensors.

Slow shutter speed is required in order to catch subject in motion like smoke, rain drops and fountains. Subject will start to blur the rate at which it is moving.

Generally, a fast shutter speed can freeze action while slow speed can blur your image. This can help in dramatic change in appearance of photo.

For example:

Picture 1 below with shutter speed of 0.01 sec





Picture 2 below with shutter speed of 0.3 sec (photograph by Bharath Pangal)



Shutter speed of picture 1 is more than shutter speed of picture 2 and water from fountain appears in picture 2 has looks like hand brush painting.

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