The shutter speed is the allocated time the Shutter opens and closes inside a camera, the longer the shutter speed stays open the more light is let into the camera. This can be visually seen in photographs which are either open for too long or for too short of time.

 

The idea is to control How much light you are allowing into the camera in order to prevent over exposure or Under exposure, to determine this there are other useful tools on a camera to be able to balance the photograph so that it is neither under or over exposed. 

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it is important for someone to understand how the shutter speed operates and the effects it can create to your photographs. If you are to use a fast shutter speed 1/600 the photographs can appear to freeze all motion, but when a photograph has a slow shutter speed 1/"2 the photographs can appear to show motion, speed and traction.  When i look at a fast shutter speed photograph i am currently looking at a moment that has been and gone, but when i look at a slow shutter speed photograph that moment feel it is still happening or is yet to happen. Mastering both slow and fast shutter speeds can give you more opportunities in the future.

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Below, you may find many contact sheets where I had gone to a location to explore the effects the different shutter speeds can make in creating an interesting composition. Upon reflecting, noticing that my first images of the cars speeding across the frame, my images appeared over exposed. At the time of the photoshoot my understanding of the shutter speed was minimal which made it difficult for me to correct this problem efficiently. The only response I came to when i photographed these images was to continue in order to aim for a better photograph the next time and I was not expecting to have my first 100 images be perfect. Thinking positively I understood that the images were not perfect and that I needed to do something to change how exposed they were. Coming to the revelation about half way through the photoshoot it became clear that a few things needed changing, My ISO settings were far to high for the weather conditions, my aperture settings were also set wrong so I changed my shutter speed from 1/125 ->1/2. I also realised that in order to get a clear slow shutter speed photograph it is necessary to avoid any movement to the camera whilst it is photographing, I had failed to bring a tri-pod with me to this photoshoot so I adapted to my surroundings using fence posts, stones, and the floor to avoid any sudden muscle movements that disrupted the camera.