Hello friends! Two weeks just seems so long in between our “chats” but I have been so busy, it is much needed for me! For those of you that have a camera that you can control the settings, we are going to talk about 2 different effects with changing your shutter speed in regards to water. For the longest time, I would see cool pictures with water and really want to figure out how to shoot them, but I had no clue how. I’ve got 2 different examples for you today, hopefully this will teach you a new trick.
First is slowing down your shutter speed to capture the constant flow of the water such as this waterfall below. The first shot, I could tell it wasn’t slowed enough. You can still see droplets.
I was at 1/25 on my shutter and new I had to slow it down even more. Tripods are quite necessary for this, as you will likely get camera shake without. Below is pulled back, but you can see the flow of the water is captured how I wanted….soft and pretty.
See, I was at 1/.6 on my shutter. A slow shutter means when you press your shutter button, it will stay open longer and therefore catch a lot of movement in one scene.
The second example is speeding up the shutter and freezing the droplets of water. I’ve got 3 examples below.
These two shutters are cranked way up to 1/1600, but the aperture was quite low.
Don’t you love the look of seeing water droplets frozen in time? I do.
Below, since my aperture was 2.8, but shutter isn’t as high, plus we were in the shade. Simple enough?
Sorry if these make you long for summer (these were taken then).
Now go give that a try!
On a sidenote…
Did you take the say NO! to auto challenge? I’d love to hear all about it! I’ve got some reviews going on my blog and would love to hear (over there) how it is going. If you don’t know what I am talking about, CLICK HERE to find out more.
~Kristen Duke
Great tips! I love trying to get fun water shots! Love the last pic especially of your daughter with the hose. Makes me LONG for summer days!
Such great pictures – the last is precious! Absolutely love it. I can't wait to try this!
Kristen,
Thank you, thank you, thank you for these wonderful posts! I am learning my DSLR and going through your archives has been amazing.
Thanks again!
Kristen thank you for the wonderful photography advice! I look forward to your posts! Having a busy blog myself I totally understand the time it takes to put these posts together….thank you!