I need some help please!

[tlcmommyx4]

I just wanted to share my slow shutter speed! I was very happy with this shot. I am a little confused thou, because I kept my aperture @ 3.5 which is the highest that my little lens will go. Does this change when you change the Shutter speed? I feel like that is such a stupid question.

 

[DznyFan]

Michelle - you're getting there!
Short answer to your question, depending on which mode your camera is in, yes. If you're shooting totally manual, where you choose your aperture and shutter speed, then it won't unless you change it. If you are shooting in aperture priority, where YOU choose your aperture and the camera chooses the shutter, then yes, it will. Or the aperture will change if you change shutter speed, if you are shooting on shutter priority.

Y'all please correct me if I'm wrong here...

Long answer - you will find there will be several "correct" exposure combinations (shutter+aperture+ISO) for a shot, but you will get a different result with each.
The bigger your apeture is (small number) and the more light it is letting in, the camera will compensate and the shutter speed MAY be shorter (again, depends on your shooting mode). I may be wrong, and I didn't look at your exif information from your carousel shots, but it APPEARS that the second one has a slightly shorter shutter speed than the top one. It's irrelevant, really, but unless you've chosen both your shutter speed AND your aperture the camera will compensate by choosing one or the other. For each shutter speed change (for example from 1/125 to 1/250 sec) your aperture will change one stop. Let's say that you took a photo with an ISO of 400 at 1/250 sec with an aperture of 4 -if you change your shutter speed to 1/125 sec, then f-stop, or aperture, will change a stop. You are letting the light in longer since you slowed down your shutter speed, so unless the aperture changes (needs to be smaller with a longer shutter speed) you could have an overexposed photo.
The downside to a larger aperture (remember, larger aperture, smaller number) is a shallow depth of field and your focus will be more crucial, but a larger aperture will let in more light in low light situations.
Third side to this exposure triangle is your ISO. If your camera will shoot quality shots with a high ISO, it will open up your limitations with your shutter speed and aperture. They're all related, and they all work together to get a correct exposure. This will come into play when you're trying to shoot in existing light conditions, especially if you're trying to capture action, such as the barrel racing. you turn on the flash and all bets are off, so to speak. Livestock arena lighting STINKS, and frankly, for your first time shooting the event with such a new camera, you did a good job!

 

[tlcmommyx4]

Thank you so much Dzny fan. I did have it on TV mode and set the Aperture to 3.5 and then changed the Shutter speed and never looked to see that the AP mode change. I am slowly learning that to everone on these boards!.
Thanks again

 

[ukcatfan]

tlcmommyx4, for a long shutter speed shot where you want motion blur is wanted, it is not typical to want a wide open aperture. You would typically want it at the sharpest spot, which is usually around f/8. If you had a lens that can get a large enough aperture to limit the DOF, you might want to do that, but with a standard zoom lens the DOF is going to be fairly large anyway, so why not get it the sharpest as possible.

 

[disneyboy2003]

Great job on your slow shutter speed assignment! The exposure was good, and the lines from the lights make it an exciting photo.

ukcatfan and DznyFan are right. When I do slow shutter speed photos, I try to use the lowest ISO I can, like ISO 100 or maybe ISO 200. This helps to ensure that I get clear, noise-free photos.

I also use an intermediate aperture, like f/8 or f/11. That's actually where your lens is typically the sharpest. If you go any smaller than that, then you run into an effect called diffraction, where your image won't be the sharpest. This is also an intermediate topic in photography, so here are some links to tutorials for more information: Luminous-Landscape.com and Cambridge in Colour.com

From there, you just use whatever shutter speed gets you the correct effect and/or correct exposure for your photo. In your case using the above ISO and aperture settings, you'd probably use a 1- to 3-second shutter speed.

Of course, you'll need a tripod for all those sloooooow shutter speeds. Great job again!

 

[tlcmommyx4]

To all of you how have taken the time to help me out Thank You!!!!
I go to my last of the 3 classes tonight! I can't wait to share all the info that everyone has shared with me.

 

[MICKEY88]

Is this kinda what you are talking about, with the flash lighting up the horse so much!

did you try to darken this one at all on your pc, I did it out of curiosity and the colors really pop, I can post it if you would like me to

 

[tlcmommyx4]

did you try to darken this one at all on your pc, I did it out of curiosity and the colors really pop, I can post it if you would like me to

That would be so wonderful. I feel like I have to get the camera info under control and then I would love to learn PS. I have PSE6, but its a bigger mystery to me than my camera. This picture happens to be my sister and she would just love a great pic to hang with her collection. Thank you so much.
I just was going to ask a question, I took a picture of the castle and its not to bad, but learning things on this board I think it could have some noise reduction. Can you suggest something I could down load and see if it could get any better????

Thanks

 

[MICKEY88]