Digital Photography 101 with TigerTV Host Logan! Pt.3

And this is similar on the top, to the two different modes that they have here on the camera. The portrait mode will be like an f2.8 and then there’s the landscape mode…that’s like an f8 so it takes the landscape pictures. All right…you know I had one email…a gentleman could not figure out why his camera wouldn’t go to the lowest aperture rating. Now I asked him if he was zooming in and he said yes he was zooming. Well, a lot of cameras as you zoom; it does change the aperture value. So you noticed on this one, we just zoomed and the aperture went to 4.

Now let’s talk about shutter speed. Lot of you guys know what shutter is. If you have a fast shutter you’re going to catch some…you know, stop some motion with an athlete running or something like that. If you have a slow shutter you’re going to get the motion blur, looks very interesting. Now we talked about aperture and there’s an iris in there. Now the iris controls how much light gets in and right in front of that there’s the shutter and that controls how quickly that light gets in. So I’m taking pictures of a waterfall here. I have two different examples. This first picture I set at a very high shutter 1/500th of a second. That’s very fast shutter. And look at the water droplets; it’s stopped the water and all the motion so you can see all the detail. Now a lot of you’ll see an interesting effect. I turned the shutter down very slow; this is 1/10th of a second.

So it’s a lot slower the shutter. Now when you take a picture like this, it’s not quick enough to stop the movement. So you see kind of a ghosting effect with the water. And you’ll notice this with the…sometimes you’ll see the pictures at night time with the cars going by and you just see red lights, well that’s what they’ve done. They’ve done a very slow shutter so that all that motion is recorded on the image. All right now I’m going to show you how to change the shutter on your camera.

I’m using the Canon again and if you’ll see here on the top, right there on the dial…a lot of you guys have this dial and almost every dial has this. You see the Tv. Now Tv that’s…I think it’s like a time value…and right here on the bottom you see like 1/400th right there in the middle. That’s 1/400th of a second and it’s very easy to change. You can go up to 1/500.
If you want to stop that bald eagle always flying by in mid…you know in motion, mid flight.

In case you didn’t see the video in part 1 of this series… here it is again

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