Urban environments can be a frenetic mass of contrasts – vibrant or mundane, lively or eerie, beautiful or drab. For a photographer, it’s easy enough to capture how places like this look, but it’s ...

Long exposures can do more than just provide illumination – by physically moving the camera while working with longer shutter speed, familiar scenes can be presented in a fresh light. The recorded ...

Another reason is that long exposure times allow lots of light into the camera and we need to compensate for that somehow in order to avoid a totally overexposed image even at the lowest ISO. When ...

Compared to ISO and aperture, shutter speed is a relatively straightforward concept to understand. It's the period of time that a camera's sensor (or film) is exposed to light after you hit the ...

This is a cool idea, though it’s obviously still in the prototype phase right now. This Microsoft Research project took a DSLR (a Canon 1D mk III if you must know) and modified it with some ...

Last week I talked about aperture, depth of field and how to use them to your advantage. Today is about aperture’s kissing cousin: shutter speed. Like aperture, shutter speed controls the amount of ...