ISO, Aperture & Shutter Speed | A Cheat Sheet For Beginners
One of the first things you must learn as a new photographer is the relationship between ISO, aperture and shutter speed. Here’s a little cheat-sheet to help you remember.
One of the first things you must learn as a new photographer is the relationship between ISO, aperture and shutter speed. Here’s a little cheat-sheet to help you remember.
In HDR photography, the only varying factor controlling the exposure in your bracketed sequence should be the shutter speed. This means that the camera is controlling the shutter speed to give us the median exposure, the darker exposure and the brighter exposure. However, given that cameras have limitations of the highest possible shutter speed and that shutter speed also controls motion freeze, there are optimal settings for shutter speed. The optimal shutter speed depends on a few considerations, which we will discuss in this article. In addition, we will explain the two issues that arise due to shutter speed as well as why the optimal exposure value should not be at 3 stops, but at 2 stops instead.
Aperture controls flash, shutter speed controls ambient…this is a good mantra to have when trying to understand and control flash. Some photographers don’t understand the relationship between flash and aperture. A lead photographer, who I was second for, would burn through batteries in their flash cause the were shooting at f/8 at 1/4000 of a second. … Read more
Since you can’t play with your drone this weekend (if you live within a 32-mile radius of the Super Bowl that is) and you don’t want to watch the Super Bowl, how about making a time-lapse?
Joe McNally is known for being one of the best photographers worldwide. In this video, he is going to teach you how to create a matrix-styled effect by physically zooming the lens and using a slow shutter speed.
There are a number of different reasons why you might want to shoot a photo of people at a very slow shutter speed. Motion blur from water and other things can be very artistic, but how do you get your shutter speed down that slow, without your photos / subjects starting to blur?
You can capture extraordinary landscapes at the beach using a simple technique called Shutter Drag. In this video, I’ll show you how to perfect this technique in 5 super simple steps. Video: The Ultimate 5 Step Shutter Drag Reference Guide Related Reading: 10 Step Guide to Shutter Drag Portraits Step #1: What You’ll Need For Shutter … Read more
We’re going to take a closer look at the four main modes available on most cameras and discuss scenarios where each mode makes the most sense. Ready? Let’s dive in!
Ronny Tertnes manipulates liquid as a sculptor does to clay. He molds and shapes each droplet by using high speed photography.
Last week, we walked through how to capture an environmental shutter drag portrait. A shutter drag portrait is a portrait that uses slow shutter speeds to capture movement around a subject. We followed steps to capture a final RAW image. In this video/article, I’ll be showing you my Lightroom editing tips in this full walkthrough … Read more
Learn how to get dynamic athletic portraits using high-speed sync in our new episode of Slice of Pye!
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