What is Shutter Speed?

Shutter Speed controls how fast the shutter closes which determines the amount of light the camera takes in. So the faster the shutter, the clearer the picture.

Slow Shutter Speed:

It closes for longer and then opens, which will include more light, therefore it will take in the streams from car lights.

Fast Shutter Speed:

It closes faster and then opens, which will take in less light, so it will take exactly that frame right there.

Simply think of it as how clear the photo will be, and that the faster the shutter the clearer and the slower the more blurry.

Put it simply:

How it works?

Inside the camera is the shutter, it’s what closes when you press the button to take a photo and your camera window goes black for a moment.

They look like this:

When is closes, and if you set the shutter speed to slow, it will stay closed for a little longer than normal, that is the lens capturing all the light and will keep capturing the light until it opens again.

The resulting picture, if you took a picture of something moving, will cause a stream of movements the object made during that time and will be all put into one picture.