To Remember: the higher the shutter speed setting, the subject will be stopped. The lower the setting, more the subject is in motion and the photo will be blurred. You must decide what you want to show the audience before you even press the button. Do you want the action in motion or stopped?
The lower the aperture setting, the fore/background will be blurred. The higher the setting, the sharper the fore/background.
Shutter speed and aperture work together to give you the best photo. If your aperture setting is low, you must need a high set shutter speed. The aperture hole will be small thus, allowing less light. If you force the shutter speed too low, you might end up with a very dark photo and vice versa. I've noticed with my Nikon D70, if I want a low shutter speed the aperture or F/stop will show Lo/Hi instead of the number. This tells me there is either too much light pouring in or not enough. Listen to your camera! I deliberately took some pictures that the aperture was too low or too high and sure enough the picture was either over exposed or under. I love my camera and I know it is wanting to help make the best picture as possible, but like Ms. Theresa said, it can want to help you out a little too much and that is why we don't want to go around the world taking pictures with the automatic button set. LOL!
I am an artist! If you see me with my camera and tripod in hand, be at ease that I'm working on my art. :)
It's hard taking a picture of a bumble bee! It took me a long time and loads of patience to capture this bee buzzing from flower to flower. Bees just won't stay on a flower long enough to get all of your settings and focus ready. The bee was just moving from this flower to another, when I took the picture. You'll notice that the flower has a slight blur and that's because the big bee moved it.
I actually took this picture looking up. I love how the beautiful blue Alabama sky was in the background, giving this shot lots of vibrant color.
This picture was actually an accident. I was trying to catch a bumble bee buzzing around the flowers. I didn't get the bee in the shot because he flew off so fast, but I love the warm sun's light reflecting off of this flower.
This is an aperture or F/stop photo that I took of these beautiful flowers. Notice the blur in the background. Just beautiful!
Pathway under an arbor into the park's wildflower garden
Cheerful light green baby fern springing up in the forest along the garden pathway. I wanted to show you the vibrant green color by using the white balance. So pretty!
I love how this picture came out. Again, I used white balance setting in order to bring these flowers to life.
I spotted this brilliant red flower in the forest by a creek bank.
Reminds me that Autumn is right around the corner
Butterfly flitting around enjoying a cool autumn day
Took advantage of a slight wind, moving this grass. Notice the slight blur, the plumes look more like feathers. Allowing more light. It was hard to capture the movement in this picture because it was so bright outside, I couldn't set my speed too low.
Shutter speed is a little faster than the photo above. Notice this picture is a little sharper than above.
An example of pushing your aperture settings when making your shutter speed real slow. Shutter speed at 20 and F/25, allowing too much light and causing over exposed photo.
Shutter speed isn't set on 30 because it would cause too much light, but it's just enough light and still have the slight blur of motion. I think this turned out good.
These two pictures would have to be one of my favorite motion pictures. On the left: night time lite church. I used the long exposure setting for this picture. I love the sparkle from the street lights. On the right: city scape of my downtown. I think it turned out very good because you see the movement from the cars, coming and going. The street lights and signs are still. A couple street lights even have a little sparkle.
Fair grounds - the ferris wheel was going entirely too slow and where I was taking this picture required a lot of patience from other drivers. Yikes! I felt like I couldn't make my exposure too long.
The above two pictures taken at a long exposure and turned out great. Shutter speeds are awesome!
My past class meeting, my instructor really liked my fountain photo. She challenged me to go back and take two separate photos to see the difference. It really does give you an entirely different picture. On the left: I slowed the shutter speed and you can see the continuous flow of water, but notice the lighting and the sharp background. Whereas the right, the water is slow motion. The photo is darker because less light is allowed in the camera and the aperture is blurred in the background.
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