Shutter speed

Shutter speed is the time the lense uses to open and close. If you have your camera set on long shutter speed it is going to recieve a lot more ''information'', or light,  than it would otherwise. This is why one can walk around in the picture and get the movements as you go. With short shutter speed the photo is going to take in less information, and if set on the longest you might even get a black photo because it didn't, have enough time and light to get the info needed for a picture.

On your camera you can see that it says 1/1000. This means the photo is going to be taken in a thousandth of a second, which is fast shutter speed. But one can also go even further and turn it up a lot more than that. This is a good thing to use if you are going to take a picture that captures and freezes an object. For example if you were to take a picture of people jumping you would want to use short shutter speed.

One can also go the other way around where you make the cameralense stay open for a longer period of time insted of making it go off almost before you've hit the button. This is called long shutter speed. Now, instead of showing us how many thousands of a second, the camera shows us how many seconds we want to keep the shutter open. Seconds are often showed as: ''. The longer the shutter stays open the more it will capture.

Here you can see two photos that are taken with long shutter speed:

The first picture, to the left, is the original. It did not come out as we wanted it to as its not a clear photo. Its edited in Paint, and Picasa to alter the colours and to make it black and white. I've also edited away a few things I thought was interfering with the main focus in the picture

This one has also been edited in Paint and Picasa. The light has been slightly darkened to show the expression of the girl, which is beautliful Anna :). 

Here is two photos taken with short shutter speed:

This photo has been darkened, and allthough it may seem a bit too dark I just like the dark line thats going straight through the photo. It makes the swan really stand out. 

Here one can really see the impontance of short shutter speed as if we were to capture this moment with long shutter speed it would all turn into a blurry white blob, if we were lucky. The water splashing around like this and the swan flapping with her wings (as seen in the previous picture) would need to be taken in the blink of an eye to capture all the details not even our eyes can pick up because it's moving so fast. 

All the photos have been taken by me using Canon, in teamwork with Ingvild and Anna.