How to Freeze motion?

Capture a clear and memorable photo is very important, whether you are a professional photographer or not. But most of the time, due to the environment, maybe in car racing, horse racing, 100 meters dash, or your kids are running, you might feel very difficult to get a sharp and clear photo. 

The main reason you cannot capture a moving object is because the Shutter speed not fast enough. You might tried faster Shutter speed but you got a same blur result. 

Let's back to the basic of camera then. :)

Do you remember "How does Camera work" ? Film and Sensor need to capture light in order to get enough Exposure. Therefore, increasing the Shutter speed does not really solve the problem. You need another thing to help you increase the Exposure, it called "Light" :)

How do you get Light? Well, Camera Flash, Fluorescent light, Sun light and etc. Or you can increase your ISO speeds as well. Why?

This picture was captured at outdoor with 1/100 sec Shutter speed. As you can see, 1/100 sec Shutter speed is not enough to freeze the motion of the fish. You can see the water splashing but it is not clear and the surface of water is not sharp as well.

This picture was captured in 1/250 sec Shutter speed. The surface of the water looks clearer compare to 1/100 sec Shutter speed. Also, you can see the fish head, sharp enough isn't it?

As long as the you get enough Exposure, you can try a faster Shutter speed. This picture was captured in 1/1250 sec Shutter speed. 

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How does Shutter work?

What is a Shutter? Shutter is a device, too... ...that's all? Lame joke... ...Let's get serious :)

Shutter is a gate that block light goes in the camera, so your Sensor (for digital camera) or film (for film camera) will not get expose. Remember the Black Box mentioned in "How does Camera work" ? Shutter is actually the "cover" mentioned in the chapter and it decide whether the picture is clear or blur. Why?

Imagine the Shutter is you eyelid, and it is close by now. You see nothing...of course ^^. Now open your eye and close it quickly. What did you see? Well, depends on how fast your eyelid can open and close. So, if you open for just 0.1 second, you only able to capture the image for 0.1 second as well. 

Therefore, faster Shutter speed can Freezes the motion and you can capture a clearer picture.

And for a slower Shutter speed, you will capture something blur.

However, due to the faster Shutter speed, your camera does not have enough time to capture enough light, which we called "Exposure". You will get a darker picture as well. 

Most cameras have 1 sec, 1/2 sec, 1/4 sec, 1/8 sec, 1/15 sec, 1/30 sec and 1/60 sec Shutter speeds. For higher entry level  SLR, 1/8000 sec Shutter speeds is available. 

This is a flame capture in 1/8000 sec, no PhotoShop or relevant software modified. I swear :)

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