You are shooting at night with bright lights popping up randomly everywhere. When photographing ocean, sea, lakes, and rivers where movement in the water is not too fast or when you shoot from a greater distance, you need a slower shutter speed value compared to shooting the waterfalls to get this silky and smooth effect in the water. Nothing makes the landscapes and seascapes dreamy and fascination like long exposure effect in the water. Blurring Water 0.5 – 5 secīlurring the water is the foundation of landscape photography. You open up the shutter speed for a longer period of time and let moving water to create motion blur effect. It is like creating a special effect in movies. By photographing a fast running water with the longer shutter speed allows us to create the visual effect which does not exist in real life. Here we are entering a more creative approach to photography in general and shutter speed in particular. Waterfalls or Fast Running Water 1/8 – 2sec By using a longer shutter speed (1/15 -1/60) and tracking the moving object (car) when the shutter is open let us create the effect when the main object is in focus and the environment around it is blurred. The panning is one of the most interesting creative technique that involves the shutter sped. The slower shutter speed of 1/8 or 1/4 is totally acceptable when using a tripod but if you shoot hand-held you need to reduce the value to get sharp photos. It is hard to pinpoint the shutter speed range for the landscapes because the techniques and the setting you use will vary depending on if you shoot hand-held or on a tripod. You have people walking towards you or crossing the street, cars moving and stopping, the proper shutter speed is paramount not only for getting the right exposure but also for avoiding blurry or soft images.
In general, when photographing the streets the scene is in constant movement.
F stop cheat sheet professional#
Photographing professional football game or your kids playing soccer will require shutter speed between 1/500s and 1/1000 to freeze the action and to get sharp photos. You probably do not need an extreme shutter speed when photographing a golfer putting on the green but any sports that involve fast movements and actions will need special attention to shutter speed value. This is a more creative approach wildlife photography. The variation of this technique is to reduce the shutter speed to 1/400s will result in a sharp body of the bird but blurry wings.
When wildlife photographers track and photograph a bird in flight it requires an extreme shutter speed of 1/2000s to get the bird perfectly sharp. This is what I call a Shutter Speed Cheat Sheet that helps photographers to use a shutter speed as the creative tool. Shutter Speed Chart and Types of Shooting Faster shutter speed equals less light and longer speed results in more light. This is a simple illustration of correlation between shutter speed values and the amount the light reacheth the camera sensor. The Safe Shutter Speed illustration let us visualize that by using the shutter speed slower than 1/100s we enter the potentially unsafe area with the regards to sharp photos goal. When you have moving objects in your composition it is paramount to use the right shutter speed in order to get sharp photos. The shutter speed chart helps us to do exposure estimations and calculations easier. Some cameras allow us to change the shutter speed by half (1/2 stop) and some cameras by third (1/3 stop). When you are doubling or halving the shutter speed you are changing the exposure value by 1-stop.īut with the introduction of digital cameras, we are not restricted to changing the shutter speed by one stop only.
You keep shutter open twice longer you get twice the amount of light.
F stop cheat sheet iso#
We all know that together with the Aperture and ISO the Shutter Speed controls the exposure.Īnd for a long time, it was a pretty simple and straightforward equation, by changing the shutter speed from 1/200s to 1/100s we double the amount of light (1 stop) that reaches the film or sensor.
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