Ben Kitching Photography

📷 Post 2/18 on Adventure Photography Camera Settings. Today’s Topic: Shutter Speed

🏃‍♀️ As one third of the exposure triangle, shutter speed controls how much light enters your camera. But, it also controls how you capture motion.

⛷️ A slow shutter speed will blur motion while a fast shutter speed will freeze motion.

🧗 Most of the time in adventure photography, we are trying to freeze motion, but there are a few circumstances when you may want to blur it. It’s all a creative choice.

📷 Getting the right exposure can be tricky in harsh light. Here’s a few tips to getting it right.

🧗 First, you want to pay attention to your histogram. You often can’t get an accurate representation of what you’re shooting from your LCD screen in harsh conditions so you need to rely on something more accurate.

🌞 When shooting in harsh light, there are often trade offs. You can’t expose everything perfectly. Most information is stored in the highlights of your photo, so you want to lean towards overexposing your image.

🏞️ The caveat, is that if you blow out any highlight, your picture is ruined. So you want to make your photo as bright as possible without blowing your highlights.

⛅️ And easy tip to reduce the dynamic range of your image is to keep the sky out of the photo. It often the brightest part of your image so keeping it can knock down your highlights a few stops.

🏜️ Want to learn more? Comment “BAD LIGHT” and I’ll send you my free guide on how to shoot in any light.

📷Day 13/100 of sharing a different Adventure Photography tip each day so you can learn to shoot like the pros.

⛷️ Today’s Tip: The Motion Blur Panning Shot. When taking photos, you want to get a variety of images. And, one way to add variety is by using different techniques. The motion blur panning shot is my go-to when I want to add a feeling of movement to my images.