Exploring Motion with Shutter speeds

The setting on the camera which controls how motion is captured is shutter speed.

The longest the Nikon D3300’s shutter stays open is 30.

The shortest duration the Nikon D3300’s shutter stays open is 1/4000.

When we used a slow shutter speed, we had to use a tripod because no one can possibly hold a camera steady for that length of time without moving the camera.

I captured myself spinning on a chair in class

In the situation where we intentionally wanted to use a slow shutter speed, we had to use an ISO of 100 and the smallest aperture of f22 and even higher. This forced the camera to allow a shutter speed of at least 1 second. The longer shutter speed allowed us to convey G_ OST images which was an interesting effect especially when combined with a person who is standing very still in the picture. My favorite picture from that situation is

I captured Josh standing still on stairs while classmates move past him.

If we want to get in the picture as well, we can set the camera to a delay by using the self timer

Movement of the camera isn’t always a bad thing like the example of panning. In the picture where we photographed someone riding a bicycle to convey motion, we used a shutter speed of slow and an aperture of f/22 and the ISO was 400. My favorite picture from this assignment is shown on the left

Captured Mr Phun riding his bike by portable restrooms

On the other extreme end of shortest duration that the camera shutter stays open, we used fast high shutter speeds or fractions of a second. In the water balloon bursting picture, we used ISO400 aperture of F5/6 and shutter speed of 1/4,000

To capture splashing water, we also used high shutter speeds. Here are my favorite pictures of high shutter speeds.

Water from a bursting balloon takes on shape of a glass

We used high shutter speed to capture the splash impact from a balloon