Shutter Speed Blog Post

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The 3 camera settings that comprise the Exposure Triangle are auto focus, and shutter speed.

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

Apertures (from smallest openings to largest openings) are typically numbers f/1.5, f/2.2, f/4.5, f/15, f/16, f/22, f/25

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

Expressed as fractions of a second, the shortest or highest shutter speed on our cameras are  1/30seconds and the longest or slowest shutter speed is 2 seconds.

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

This setting goes from 100,_120_,160__,_200_,240 ,260,__, on our cameras.

To center the meter on our cameras, we can change the shutter , speed or the focus

Finally for the 3rd picture, we learned how to securely fasten a camera to a tripod to take a picture showing a ghost-like image.

In 8 seconds, I had areline move after the first 3 seconds, and again after the next 3 seconds, for the last 2 seconds areline moved to the middle.