Shutter Speed

Introducing Shutter Speed.

The shutter is a curtain that opens to let light in to form an image on the film, and then closes again to keep light out.

Fast shutter speeds (1/1000 second or faster) stop all but the fastest moving subjects while slow shutter speeds (1/8 second) moving subjects form a blur that seems to flow across the photo.

A typical shutter speed dial shows speeds from: 1 Second 1/2, 1/4,1/8,1/15,1/30,1/60,1/125,1/250,1/500,1/1000,1/2000 second.

Frozen and Blurred Motion

Class Tasks:

Set on TV, F4 Stop, 1/80 s, ISO 200, Taken Outside

Set on T.V, F4 Stop, ISO 200. Taken Outside

Set on S, F5 Stop, 1/60 s, ISO 1800 S

Self-Directed Time

Set on S, F5 Stop, 1/125 s, ISO 400 Taken at Rainbows End

Self- Directed Time

Set on S, F5 Stop, 1/80 s , ISO 400 Taken at Rainbows End
Self-Directed Time

Set in S, F5 Stop, 2.5 s, ISO 100
Blurred Motion, Self-Directed Time

Robert Adams, Longmont, Colorado, 1979. Gelatin silver print; 5 x 5 in. TR2004’13197’13’2, 3/19/08, 11:00 AM, 16C, 6000×6716 (0+0), 100%, Custom, 1/80 s, R64.2, G37.2, B50.1

Rudbeckia in Breeze,2006, Freeman Patterson, produced on Watercolour Paper in the Giclee Process