Professional photography allows you to create photos that are much more effective than amateur photography. But to shoot professionally, it's not enough just to buy an expensive camera. You will also need to master some of the skills that distinguish the professional from the amateur. One of them is setting the shutter speed.
Instructions
Step 1
First of all, to learn how to choose a shutter speed, you need a professional or semi-professional camera. More precisely - any one in which there is a possibility of manual mechanical setting of shutter speed. There are also cameras with a digital manual exposure setting in a special menu on the screen. Usually such a function is present in cheap digital cameras and is not very convenient to use.
Step 2
For the first experiments with exposure, it is wiser to choose a digital camera rather than a film camera. This will allow you to immediately see the result on the display and quickly correct your mistakes. On film cameras, this can only be done after the film has been developed and the photographs have been printed.
Step 3
Exposure is the length of time during which the photographed image will be projected onto the photosensitive element. In other words, the time during which the camera shutter will be open. Moreover, the number of shutter speeds, which is also called its denominator, is inversely proportional to the shutter opening time. At a shutter speed of 2 the shutter will open 1/2 second, at a shutter speed of 500 - 1/500.
Step 4
In good lighting conditions, you should set a large shutter speed denominator so that the light does not act on the camera's sensor for a long time, otherwise you can light up the picture. In poor lighting conditions, you should set the shutter speed to a small denominator so that the light affects the matrix for a long time, and the picture does not turn out too dark.
Step 5
With low exposure denominators, there is a danger of noise and image blurring, so finding the optimal value for different lighting can only be done with experience. Using a tripod will help you avoid shaking hands and blurring the image.
Step 6
It should be remembered that the shutter speed together with the aperture make up the exposure couple. The opening width of the diaphragm also affects the amount of light that hits the photosensitive element. Thus, the above-described regularities are valid only at a fixed aperture value.
