
A photograph's exposure determines how light or dark an image will appear when it's been captured by your camera. Believe it or not, this is determined by just three camera settings: aperture, ISO and shutter speed (the "exposure triangle"). Mastering their use is an essential part of developing an intuition for photography
UNDERSTANDING EXPOSURE

In photography, the exposure settings of aperture, shutter speed and ISO speed are analogous to the width, time and quantity discussed above. Furthermore, just as the rate of rainfall was beyond your control above, so too is natural light for a photographer.
EXPOSURE TRIANGLE: APERTURE, ISO & SHUTTER SPEED

Aperture: controls the area over which light can enter your camera
Shutter speed: controls the duration of the exposure
ISO speed: controls the sensitivity of your camera's sensor to a given amount of light
One can therefore use many combinations of the above three settings to achieve the same exposure. The key, however, is knowing which trade-offs to make, since each setting also influences other image properties. For example, aperture affects depth of field, shutter speed affects motion blur and ISO speed affects image noise.
The next few sections will describe how each setting is specified, what it looks like, and how a given camera exposure mode affects their combination.
SHUTTER SPEED
A camera's shutter determines when the camera sensor will be open or closed to incoming light from the camera lens. The shutter speed specifically refers to how long this light is permitted to enter the camera. "Shutter speed" and "exposure time" refer to the same concept, where a faster shutter speed means a shorter exposure time.By the Numbers. Shutter speed's influence on exposure is perhaps the simplest of the three camera settings: it correlates exactly 1:1 with the amount of light entering the camera. For example, when the exposure time doubles the amount of light entering the camera doubles. It's also the setting that has the widest range of possibilities:
Shutter Speed | Typical Examples |
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1 - 30+ seconds | Specialty night and low-light photos on a tripod |
2 - 1/2 second | To add a silky look to flowing water Landscape photos on a tripod for enhanced depth of field |
1/2 to 1/30 second | To add motion blur to the background of a moving subject Carefully taken hand-held photos with stabilization |
1/50 - 1/100 second | Typical hand-held photos without substantial zoom |
1/250 - 1/500 second | To freeze everyday sports/action subject movement Hand-held photos with substantial zoom (telephoto lens) |
1/1000 - 1/4000 second | To freeze extremely fast, up-close subject motion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UecPqm2Dbes |
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