Shutter Speed Blog Post

The 3 camera settings that comprise the Exposure Triangle are Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO

On the back monitor of our Canon DSLR cameras, the aperture setting is displayed with “F” followed by a number

1/4000 at f5.6 ISO 800 for bursting water balloon Apertures are typically numbers f/1.4, f/2, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11

The shutter speed settings are shown on the top left on the back monitor. 

Examples of Shutter speeds are 1”,1/1000 ,  . 1/60/ 1/500, 1/4000, 1/125, ½, 1/30,1/2000,1/250 ⅛”

The third setting ISO controls the camera’s sensitivity to light. 

1/40 f111 ISO 400 for motion blur

This setting goes from 100, 200, 400, 800 , 1600, 3200, 6400, on our cameras.

To center the meter on our cameras, we can either  change the  aperture , shutter speed or the iso

Finally for the 3rd picture, we learned how to securely fasten a camera to a tripod to take a picture showing a ghost-like image.

This photo of Jeylin was taken using 2 seconds with an ISO of 100 f/16