Shutter Speed Blog Post

The 3 camera settings that comprise the Exposure Triangle are Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO.

On the back monitor of our Canon DSLR cameras, the aperture setting is displayed with “F” followed by a number.  

Apertures are typically numbers f/16, f/11, f/8, f/5.6, f/4, f/2, f/1.4

The shutter speed settings are shown on the top Left on the back monitor. 

Expressed as fractions of a second, the shortest or highest shutter speed on our cameras are seconds and the longest or slowest shutter speed is 10 seconds.

Examples of Shutter speeds are 1/4000, 1/2000, 1/1000, 1/500, 1/250, 1/125, 1/60/ ½, 1/30, 1”, ⅛”.

The third setting ISO controls the camera’s sensitivity to light. 

This setting goes from 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, on our cameras.

To center the meter on our cameras, we can either  change the Shutter Speed, Aperture or the ISO.

Splash of Water: 1/4000 sec at f8 and ISO 400

In this picture of Carolina A. we used a Tripod with ISO 100, 2 sec, and f13.2

For motion blur 1/30, ISO 100, and f111

1/30, ISO 100, and f111