When you are taking pictures, there are a number of ways that you can change your camera to make a picture appear exactly how you want it?more realistic, more artificial, faster, slower, etc. A key step in controlling your photography is learning how to manipulate the shutter speed of your camera.

A camera works by exposing a photosensitive substance to light for a specific amount of time. In film cameras, the photosensitive item is the film itself. With digital cameras, a converter interprets the light into pixels. Either way, the ability to change the amount of light that goes through your lens can help you increase the quality of your pictures.

The amount of light that makes its way into a camera is controlled by two things: the aperture and the shutter speed. In this article, the focus is on the shutter speed. Basically, your camera has an internal lens cover that normally keeps the photosensitive substance inside the camera covered up so that it cannot get light without you purposely depressing the shoot button.

With most cameras, you can either speed up or slow down the shutter speed to control the amount of light that comes into your camera. With a slower speed, the shutter will stay open longer when you point and shoot, and a faster speed will have the shutter open and shut in the blink of an eye.

Special Effects with Shutter Speed

If you want a streaky effect, you may want to leave your shutter open longer. You may not realize it, but popular images of continual streaks of car headlights as well as continuous streams of water were probably taken with a slower shutter speed in order to blur everything together.

For fast action, you want as quick of a shutter speed as possible. Thus, you can capture the moment as it is. Otherwise, the fast-moving object may appear blurry or streaky.

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