Shutter Speed Photography

City Lights. Cars moving. Wanted to take a photo of the trails of cars moving but don’t know how? Well the key to this is shutter speed.

Now the basic is understanding the basic functions of shutter speed.

Shutter speed mainly means how fast the shutter in the camera closes to absorb all light and images into the camera.

Just like how your eyes blink, the camera has to be still in order to take a nice shot, whether its taking ‘still waterfalls’ or ‘trails of fast moving cars’.

To take the best shot, one has to use a tripod stand to make the camera stat still due to our shaky hands.

Now let’s take a look at the different photos produced by different shutter speed.

Photo courtesy ofย http://freshphotographer.com/tag/shutter-speed/

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The first windmill has a fast shutter speed of about 1/200 and that is why it appears ‘still’

The second windmill has a shutter speed of about 1/120 and that is why it has slight ‘trails’

Now the third windmill has a slow shutter speed of about 1/60 and that is why it appears with ‘trails’ of the windmill.

So what are you waiting for, get out there with your camera and tripod and go to street Photography wth Shutter speed!

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