Shutter Speed and Aperture

Shutter Speed

Changing the shutter speed on a photo can really change the out come of the photo dramatically, and knowing how to yous it with all the other settings will make it look even better. The way shutter speed works is that it controls the amount of time that the shutter is open for, there for the amount of light that comes into the lences and makes the photos lighter. If you have a low shutter speed, then the shutter is only going to be open a short time, likewise, if its high, then the shutter will be open for a long period of time. Also changing those settings will change the sharpness of the photos, for instance, if the shutter is on a high setting, the shutter is goning to be open for a longer time, and if the camera moves of shakes even a tiny bit, then the photo will be blurred becasue the shutter will be open and it will start capuring what your taking a photo of at a different angle and the two angles will be murged together.

This is an experiment that I did using a dark room, a bright light, and a long shutter speed. As long as i stood really still, and only moved the light, then the backround would be nice and sharp and it would leave a clear trail where the light was.

I also did this thign quite a while ago where it was just starting to get dark and i set my camera on a shutter time that only lasted for a couple of seconds, and a high aperture vale. Even though the shutter was not open for a long peroid of time, it was enough time that the camera could capture something going at alittle bit of speed, and get a slight trail from where they have been. Then i gave the camera to some of my friends and didnt change the setting so that all the photos would have had the same effect, but even though i did not take all of the following photos, I changed it to the sutible setting and it was just abit different and made the photo look better than it would have it it was just a normal picture with a low shutter speed.

 Also a thing that I know about shutter speed is this type of photo because i have seen alot of these photos and i wanted to have a go. so i set up a tripod and in the road behind my house, and just had to wait for a car to come and then take the photo, and because the shutter speed will be open, it will caputure the bright part of the car which was the lights and showed which way the lights went. The shutter was only on for about 5 seconds and I needed to do it in the dark to get a good balacne of light. I did try doing it with acouple of cars but on a shutter speed for about 10 seconds, but it just made the back round really bright and the lights from the car where a bit blurred.

Aperture

The aperture is how much the shutter is open, so if it was a high aperture value, then the hole would be open more than if it was on a low aperture. Having a bigger aperture will effect the lighting of the photo, and the amount of photo that will be sharp and in focus. This was and experiment that I did using the aperture setting on my camera with candles.

For this photo i had it on the lowest aperture level
so it only had a short depth of field
 and focused and sharpened the closets candle.

This one was on just under half of my shutter setting and you
 should be able to tell that now not only the first candle
is in focus, but also the second one.

Even though there is only a slight change in the photos, if you compare
 the first and last photo that i took, then you can defiantly tell that
 there is a difference  in the depth of field.

This is the last photo that I took  and it was on the highest
 aperture setting so there would be a big depth of field meaning that the
camera shouldn't be focused on a certain spot in where ever you are
taking the photo.