Shutter Speed Pictures

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Shutter speed in the length of time the shutter stays open when taking a photo, adjusting shutter speed determins how sharp the photo is. If you want to freeze movement in an image then you need to chose s fsst shutter speed. However if you want to let the image blur to show movement then you need to use a slow shutter speed. The actual shutter spee you should choose wil vary depending upon the speed of the subject in shot and how much you want it to be blurred.

I recently experimented with changing shutter speed. Morever, I took some pictures of my friend skipping with an electric glow in the dark skipping rope and photographs of that same friend waving a torch around in the air, these images can be seen above (images 1, 2 and 3). When taking these images i used a slow shutter speed to blur and show the movement of the skipiing rope and the torch, and as a result the above unique patterns were produced. Images 1 and 3 have been taken head on, wheras image 2 has been taken from a side view creating a different pattern.

I also took an images of my firend skipping with the skipping rope using a fast shutter speed. Using a fast shutter speed allowed me to freeze the movemnt of my friend skipping in mid air, the image can be seen above (image 4).