Shutter speed is the speed at which the shutter of the camera closes…. A fast shutter speed creates a shorter exposure the amount of light the camera takes in and a slow shutter speed gives the photographer a longer exposure. Here is a image I’ve found to describe shutter speed visually:

John Baldessari

To test shutter speed we used John Baldessari as inspiration. He showed how shutter speed makes a difference by throwing balls into the sky and trying to capture them in a certain position; for example:

We then used this as a ‘template’ and tried to experiment with shutter speed our selves, we did this two ways. The first way was like the image above (throwing balls into the air and photographing them). The second way was having someone fighting the camera to capture and show the blur or sharpness, this task is to show our undertanding of both sides of the scale.

My pictures: