A unique guide to creative shutter speed techniques, illustrated with striking full-color examples
Along with available light and aperture, shutter speed is one of the variables that determine exposure–the amount of light that reaches the camera's sensor. Set on automatic modes, cameras typically attempt to reduce or eliminate blur in a picture. But by manipulating shutter speed creatively, photographers can achieve a range of striking motion blur or stop-action effects. Using an array of inspiring photographs depicting people, wildlife, and landscapes, Creative Power of Shutter Speed explains how to “read” the light and movement in a potential photograph and identify the best shutter speed for the desired effect.
Derek Doeffinger (Rochester, NY) is a former Eastman Kodak Company photographer whose work has been published in the photography collections Waterfalls and Gorges of the Catskills and Adirondacks and Waterfalls of the Finger Lakes. He is the author of numerous photography how-to books.
