Compared to ISO and aperture, shutter speed is a relatively straightforward concept to understand. It's the period of time that a camera's sensor (or film) is exposed to light after you hit the ...

Your dSLR's (or ILC's, or enthusiast compact's) Shutter-priority mode is perfect when you care about shutter speed beyond all else. Here's what you need to know to use it. Lori Grunin Senior Editor / ...

A long exposure is a wonderful way to blur motion in photography. Rivers, waterfalls, waves and clouds can look stunning when captured as streaks of silky blur. But how slow do you go? Some parts of a ...

Vimeo has recently partnered with Story & Heart, co-founded by former Stillmotion partners, to bring all-new educational posts and videos to Vimeo Video School free to all Vimeo members. With their ...

No. 4 of the unofficial rules of photography is: "Always have a shutter speed." A photographic exposure can be defined as a certain amount of light hitting a sensor (or film) for a certain amount of ...

Last week I talked about aperture, depth of field and how to use them to your advantage. Today is about aperture’s kissing cousin: shutter speed. Like aperture, shutter speed controls the amount of ...

This photo credited to Alexander Gardner from 1862 at the Battle of Antietam, pictures Allan Pinkerton, Abraham Lincoln and John McClernand. The stiff poses were necessary because of the long ...

In the good ol’ days of film cameras, photographers would purchase film with different sensitivities to light, usually measured by an ASA number, to match the environment they would be shooting in.

Photographers searching for a professional shutter speed tester may be interested in a new device which has been created by Eric Bergstrom and this week launched by the Kickstarter crowdfunding ...