Monday 17 September 2018

Media Basics: Shutter Speed

"Shutter Speed is the length of time your camera shutter is open, exposing light onto the camera sensor. Essentially, it's how long your camera spends taking a photo" (Photography Life, 2018). So in theory, you would need to use a higher shutter speed when shooting in a high lit area, and a lower one in a more low light area. This also means you would have to change your ISO to suit your shutter speed to correctly expose the image.

As exampled below, the different shutter speeds specifically refers to the amount of time an individual frame is exposed for; this is not the same as frame rate which is the number of individual frames that create each second of video you record (aka FPS). As a general however, when choosing settings to film in, the denominator of the shutter speed should be roughly double the amount of frames per second.






As we can see, there is a noticeable difference in the overall definition of the water. With the first video (slower shutter speed) the water is more smooth and harsh with the way it comes out; whereas with the second video we can see the the droplets come out as well as the general flow of the water clearer.

Reference list:
Photography Life (2018) [online] Available from: https://photographylife.com (Accessed 17/09/2018)

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