Welcome to Week 2 of the amazing Photo Ladies DSLR Camera lessons! I am so excited to be a part of this. I have already used my knowledge from Challenge No. 1 about Aperture to help me take some amazing photos for a few photo challenges and even a few posts. This is why I couldn’t wait to get a chance to learn something else about my DSLR Camera.
This week’s lesson was focusing on shutter speed. I was actually happy when I saw the topic because I had tried to play around with it a bit and had little to no success. If you’d like to get a bit of this lesson be sure to head over to NoBadFoto.com and don’t forget to sign up with Teresa from CraftyWife.com to be a part of The Photo Ladies!
Now on to my photos from this week’s lesson…this week our challenge was to shoot photos of flowing or running water and try to demonstrate the blurred effect that happens when your Shutter Speed is at a low setting in comparison to the crisp almost ‘frozen in time’ effect that can be achieve with a higher Shutter Speed. I picked a pretty colorful and bright cup to place under my flowing water so that everything could be seen. I tried to let as much natural light into the room as possible as I was taking the pictures to help as well.
This was the first shot I took at the lowest Shutter Speed setting. I could see immediately that the water just appeared as a blur. You couldn’t see any feral details or anything.
This one I went in a bit closer and also changed my f-stop. You can definitely see that the flowing/running water is no more than a blur.
This was my first shot in the high shutter speed and you can clearly see that the water flow appears to have stopped mid motion as if ‘frozen in time’. This is going to be such a cool piece of knowledge to have when shooting things like my Kiddies dance or sports activities. I did have to adjust a bit for the light because once I changed the Shutter Speed I lost a good amount of my light.
I’m still not sure how to adjust for the lighting but I am playing around with a bit. Perhaps I will learn that in our next lesson? 😀
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6 thoughts on “The Photo Ladies – Challenge No. 2 | Shutter Speed”
I love this post! I just got a new camera and these tips for the shutter speed are very helpful.. I think I see a difference in my photos I have been taking for my posts.
Thanks Maria http://www.simplenaturedecorblog.com.
Can you send me invite your next party!
That’s great Maria! I’ve fallen behind a bit on my Challenge Posts but I have been doing the lessons. Be sure to stop by CraftyWife.com to sign up so that you can follow along. They’re easy and definitely help you learn your camera better.
Great job! Playing around with shutter speed is fun! Find a fountain at a park and try the different shutter speeds, it looks really cool! What are you shooting with? I’m a Nikon girl 🙂
I'm a Nikon Girl too… D5300
Yeah I should do that! Thanks 🙂
Great photos! I really love the last one. 🙂
The lighting on my photos was horrible too, it's usually due to lack of natural light. Our next lesson, ISO, will definitely help us understand how to use the setting to get the best picture.
Thanks Teresa! I had fun with this Challenge.
That's great! I am looking forward to it because I always wonder how they come up with the numbers. 🙂