Shutter Speed blog post

1/4000 at f5.6 ISO 800 for the water balloon

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.  

Apertures (from smallest openings to largest openings) are typically numbers f/1.4, f/2, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11

1/40 f11 ISO 400 for motion blur

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

Expressed as fractions of a second, the shortest or highest shutter speed on our cameras are seconds and the longest or slowest shutter speed is _seconds.

Examples of Shutter speeds (not in order) are ⅛”, ½,1”, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000 , 1/2000,1/4000.

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

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

18mm f/22 ISO 200 for Emmy being blurred

For this final picture, we learned how to secure the camera onto a tripod in order to shoot an image with a slow shutter speed effect. The slow shutter speed effect in this image shows Emmy as ¨blurred¨.