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The Flash Book
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The Flash Book

by Scott Kelby
November 2017
Beginner to intermediate
208 pages
5h 11m
English
Rocky Nook
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Where to Set Your Shutter Speed (and Why)

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Set your shutter speed at 1/125 of a second. Okay, why 1/125? Because that’s a good, safe shutter speed to use on almost any camera to make certain that your flash and the shutter on your camera stay in sync—you press the shutter button and it fires at exactly the right time. What happens if they get out of sync? Well, that’s what you see above. If your shutter speed gets too high (above 1/200 of a second for Canon, 1/250 for Nikon, or depending on which Sony camera you have, it could be 1/160, 1/200, or 1/250, which is why 1/125 is so perfect), you start to get a dark gradient that appears over the bottom ...

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ISBN: 9781681982755