Shutter Speed :)

The 3 camera settings that comprise the Exposure Triangle are shutter speed, ISO and aperture

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/22, f/116, f/11, f/8, f/5.6, f/4, f/2.8

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

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

1/40 f111 ISO 400 for motion blur

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 change the shutter speed, aperture or the ISO

Finally for the 3rd picture, we learned how to securely fasten a camera to a tripod to take a picture showing a ghost-like image.