Photography skills: shutter speed, how to adjust the shutter speed

Beginners of photography, if you don't know much about how to adjust the shutter speed, might as well have a look.

1, landscape photography:

1/30 ~1125 seconds

To ensure stability, a tripod can be used. The shutter speed can be adjusted from1125 seconds to 1/30 or even lower. Low-speed shutter can get some dynamic effects in the picture.

2. Humanities, documentary, reporting and news photography:1125 ~1/500 seconds.

This kind of photography will encounter various shooting scenes, such as indoor, outdoor, street shooting, people and so on. When shooting, the shutter speed is usually set according to factors such as light, and it is usually the most appropriate to set the shutter speed between1125 ~1/500 seconds.

3. Shooting fireworks: 1 sec to 6 seconds

Generally, before shooting fireworks, you can observe the time from the beginning to the explosion, then press the shutter one or two seconds before the explosion, and count 1 ~ 6 seconds in your mind before releasing the shutter.

4. Shoot moving pictures: 1/500 ~ 1/2000 seconds.

In particular, the shutter can be adjusted according to the athlete's moving speed, and the most suitable time is 1/500 ~ 1/2000 seconds.

5. Shooting running water: 1/45 ~ 1/60 seconds.

① If you shoot a waterfall, you need to adjust the shutter speed to 1 ~ 2 seconds.

(2) If you are shooting the water flow on the surface of a stream, you can adjust the shutter speed to 5 seconds or even slower, which will make the effect softer. If you want to feel flowing, you can adjust the shutter speed to 1/2 seconds to 6 seconds.

6. Take photos of the orbit of the star: 20 minutes to several hours.

If you want to take a beautiful picture of the track, you need a certain foundation, and you need to add multiple exposures and post-P pictures to achieve it. As for the shutter speed, it needs to be set to more than 20 minutes or even several hours.

7. Moving people and vehicles:115 seconds ~ 1/60 seconds.

When shooting people and vehicles moving in the street, you can set the shutter speed to115 seconds to1/60 seconds. Through continuous focus tracking, you can shoot a picture with clear main body and blurred background.

9. Birds and airplanes:11500 seconds ~ 1/5000 seconds.

This kind of photography usually needs to increase the shutter speed to ensure the clarity when capturing. If you want to capture the smoke effect of birds flapping their wings and airplane performances, you need to adjust the shutter speed to 1/300 ~ 1/500 seconds.