Camera Shutter Action

Video Transcript

"It's important when taking your photograph how much action and movement is going on with your subjects so that you can find the appropriate shutter speed. If you are taking a picture of something that is not moving at all, it, you really have a lot more options with your shutter speed, because you can really slow it down because it doesn't matter how long your camera eye is open because the object isn't going anywhere, so again you have more flexibility if your object isn't moving. Now when you get into photographing action, such as sports or entertainers moving around on the stage, you've got to have a faster shutter speed so that your images are in a crisp focus so it is important to understand that your shutter is really going to determine how long the eye of the camera is open and how much movement is going to be created. Now there are times when you are shooting an action shot and you want to show a little blur, a little bit of motion, you know maybe add some life to an image. So do some experimenting but again when its action and you want a crisp shot you're going to want to use a fast shutter speed, but if you slow it down a little bit you might get some interesting blur effects. So it's important to understand that the shutter and the light are very real related to how the action is going to be depicted, whether it is going to be blurry, whether it's going to be crisp or whether it's going to have just a little bit of motion blur to it."