Shutter Speed Blog Post

1/1250 at f/5.6 ISO 1600 for bursting water balloon.

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 (from smallest openings to largest openings) are typically numbers f/16, f/11, f/5.6, f/4, f/2.8, f/2, f/1.4.

1/40 at F/13 ISO 200 for the spinning toy.

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 ⅛ seconds.

Examples of Shutter speeds are 1/4000, 1/250, 1/2000, 1/1000, 1/500, 1/125, 1/60, 1/30, 1, ½, ⅛. (Fastest to slowest)

1/25 at F/5.6 ISO 800 for me spinning in a chair.

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

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

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

The last picture I took was with a tripod, which made the person in the picture look like a ghost.

2.0 at F/22 ISO 22 for Ben's ghost.