Exercise 2. Shutter Speed

The next function on your camera that would be helpful to master is the Shutter Speed. This setting control how fast the camera takes the picture. If you set it on a fast shutter speed( 250 and up) you will see motion frozen and crystal clear. The faster the object the higher the shutter speed you will need to use. So if you are shooting a car flying by you would need a faster shutter speed than if you were taking a picture of a child running across the yard. The only draw back is that you have to have a lot of light to shoot at a high shutter speed so it gets challenging to shoot on an overcast day. If you set your camera on a lower shutter speed( 125 and down) you will start to see some loss of definition but you will have the look of fluid motion. Set your camera on Shutter Speed priority ( usually S or SP on your dial). This will allow you to select the Shutter Speed and the camera will select the appropriate f-stop for a perfect exposure. Try shooting a moving object on a low shutter speed(30-125 depending on the light) and then take a similar picture on a high shutter speed( 250 and up depending on the light) and compare the two. Here are a couple shots of my own using this concept: