Shutter speed and Depth of Field - 20/09/17

Today we experimented with depth of field and different shutter speeds to see the different effect that they allow for. Changing the shutter speed can allow you to get a fast moving object to look stationary if the shutter speed is fast enough, which allows you to capture things in mid air as if it is floating or just capture the subject you want in a clear and crisp way with no blur. The other spectrum of the shutter speed is if the shutter speed is slow, this allows more light to get in though so settings will need to be changed to comply with that exposure. When the shutter speed is slow it can blur subjects if they are moving or if you have a static subject but everything else around is moving you can then have blurred surroundings with movement in them while the subject is clear and with no blur, causing a fairly cool looking image. The shutter speed all determines on what sort of image you are going for and how you want the subject to look in the image.

Depth of field is what you can get if you have a low aperture then the object you focus on will be in focus but the surroundings will be out of focus, that means that when the aperture is a higher number then more of the surroundings of the subject will be more and more in focus the higher you go.
Having a low aperture can allow for some really unique looking photos and allow you to have the viewer focus strait away on the subject you intended as it is the part that is the most in focus. If you want the whole image to be in focus then you need to have a high aperture to then have more of the image in focus, this is more used for landscape images or group subjects where the subjects are at different distances away from the camera.

Yasmine and her Canon Camera

The image above uses a f4.0 aperture with a 1/1250 shutter speed