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Shutter speed explained

Shutter speed explained

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Shutter speed explained

Robbie Carman: So Rich, one of the questions that I hear all the time and I am pretty sure you hear also is, I shot some stuff. I bring it back to the studio. I start looking at it, now everything looks kind of jittery. What gives? Richard Harrington: Well there is two things; one is hand held shooting, you know, and there it's more wobbly. It's not so much a jitter, but yeah, it's people being over over-caffeinated. Or if even if they using a tripod they are not using a fluid head tripod so they are holding on to that with the death grip and they are shaking. Robbie Carman: Yep. Richard Harrington: So if we have eliminated human error then it's probably the camera settings, and lot of photographers are used to shooting with really fast shutter speeds. So if you are shooting stills, you might go to a thousandth, a hundredth, the 500th of a second to freeze the action. Robbie Carman: Exactly and a lot of photographers use shutter if they are in their Shutter Priority mode even to sort…

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