Exploring Motion with Shutter Speeds

The setting on the camera which controls how motion is captured is shutter speed.

The longest the Nikon D3300’s shutter stays open is 30 seconds.

ISO 100 f22 2 second exposure

The shortest duration the Nikon D3300’s shutter stays open is 1/4000 of a second.

When we used a slow shutter speed, we had to use a tripod because no one can possibly hold a camera steady for that length of time without moving the camera. In the situation where we intentionally wanted to use

a slow shutter speed, we had to use

an ISO of 100 and the smallest aperture of f22 and even higher. This forced the camera to allow a shutter speed of at least 1 second. The longer shutter speed allowed us to convey G_ OST images which was an interesting effect especially when combined with a person who is standing very still in the picture. My favorite picture from that situation is seen above Include the exposure information with the picture example ISO 100 f22 2 seconds. If we want to get in the picture as well, we can set the camera to a delay by using the Exposure Delay mode

ISO 400 f22 1/30th of a second

Movement of the camera isn’t always a bad thing like the example of panning. My favorite picture from this assignment is shown

ISO 200 1/4000 f5.6

On the other extreme end of shortest

duration that the camera shutter stays open, we used high shutter speeds or fractions of a second.