No way to stop that motion with a 1/50th-of-a-second shutter speed. Panning was the answer. I must have picked up the technique from one of the photography magazines of the day. I remember ...

To take a picture, the best digital cameras on the market open their shutter for around around one four-thousandths of a ...

You simply use a slow shutter speed, usually a half a second or longer, maybe up to as long as 30 seconds. The water in motion blurs to become as smooth as glass. The trick is getting that long ...

Camera shutter speed is an essential adjustment in photography – along with the aperture, the shutter moderates the amount of light entering the camera. Older cameras (and some newer ones ...

How long is a split second anyway? You need a shutter speed tester, and luckily for us, [Stuart Brown] has one. There are no sharks involved in this build, but it does rely on laser diodes as a ...

The lucky final touch was the baby elephant, which raced by so close. The slow shutter speed conveyed the motion, and a burst of flash at the end of the exposure froze the fleeting detail. Greg has ...

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