What Is Shutter Speed When Taking Photos?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I hope this simple information came in handy.
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