Shutter Speed Blog

1/4000 at f5.6 ISO 800 for bursting water balloon

The 3 camera settings that comprise the Exposure Triangle are ISO, Aperture, 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/32, f/22, f/16, f/11, f/8, f/5.6, f/4, f/2.8, f/2, f/1.4.

1/40 f111 ISO 400 for motion blur

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 1/4000 seconds and the longest or slowest shutter speed is 30" seconds.

Examples of Shutter speeds are, 1", 1/8", 1/2, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500,1/1000, 1/2000, 1/4000.

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

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

To center the meter on our cameras, we can either change the aperture, shutter speed or the ISO.

To center the meter on our cameras, we can either change the aperture, shutter speed or the ISO.

18mm f/22 ISO 200 for Gisells ghost

For the final picture, we learned how to secure the camera on a tripod to shoot an image to look ghost-like with a slow shutter speed.