From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
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Working with shutter speed in low light
From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
Working with shutter speed in low light
Just as you cannot see as well in the dark, your camera has a more difficult time creating an image if you don't have enough light. Now, not enough light doesn't mean an image that's completely dark. Long before you get to full darkness, you'll encounter the problem of a scene that simply doesn't have enough light to show a level of detail that the viewer can make sense of. Now you determine how bright or dark your final images through your exposure controls: shutter speed, aperture, ISO. You should already be familiar with these and how they interrelate. But let's quickly review a couple of critical low-light concerns. As the shutter is open longer, moving objects in your scene will get blurrier and if you're shaking the camera at all, overall sharpness in your image will decrease, due to camera shake. Of course, leaving the shutter open longer is one of the ways that you can get more light onto the sensor. So in low light, you'll be battling this balance of a shutter speed that's…
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Working with exposure parameters in low light1m 13s
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Working with image sensors in low light4m 35s
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Working with shutter speed in low light3m 3s
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Considering motion blur1m 14s
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Working with ISO in low light2m 29s
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Assessing your camera's high ISO capability4m 52s
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Working with in-camera noise reduction2m 4s
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Working with aperture in low light2m 10s
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Understanding dynamic range2m 2s
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Working with color temperature and white balance1m 11s
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Exposing to the right4m 1s
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