Panning is a technique where you take the shot while moving your camera along with the subject. In this shot that I captured during the Diwali festival in 2015, I have used a shutter speed of 5-6 seconds for each firework and then compiled them together into one scene in Photoshop. So all the trails end up joining together to form one big trail for each star and the result are these long lines in the sky which look pretty cool. Then I’ve used a photo stacking software called StarStax to combine all the 150 shots into one. Each of those 150 shots consists a light trail left by the stars. Here, I’ve taken 150 such shots with a shutter speed of 30 seconds. If we use a slow shutter speed, we can achieve trails that their movement leaves. But let’s just take a look for now:īecause of the movement of the earth, the stars in the sky are always moving. We won’t go into their details right now as they can be a bit advanced. There are a lot of other types of shots that make sure of a slower shutter speed. Check out this article for a detailed explanation of this shot. I have placed the tripod on a merry-go-round and used a slower shutter speed of 1/15th of a second to throw the spinning background into a motion blur. Now this one is slightly tricky but interesting. Here I’ve used a shutter speed of 2 seconds to throw the moving train into a blur. This has thrown everyone into a motion blur, making them look like ghosts. All I’ve done here is that I have used a shutter speed of 10 seconds.

Here I am standing right in the middle of this street with about a hundred people walking towards me. If you look at this shot closely, what you’ll notice is that you are actually looking at a lot of people. Let’s take a look at some shots like these: Throwing the motion of a physical object into a blur is usually considered bad because it results in the shot not being sharp.īut when you understand how a slow shutter speed can throw any type of movement into a blur, you’ll start to see that it can be used creatively in almost any situation.

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