Shutter speed, and the second thing it does
Photograph something still, with a shutter fast enough that your hands do not show
- A shutter of 1/125 of a second or faster, which is around where hand movement stops showing in a handheld frame.
Go and do this
Bring back a photograph and we will read what your camera wrote down
Every lesson ends with something to go and do. This is where you bring one back. Pick the drill, upload the photograph you took for it, and we will read the settings your camera recorded and tell you what they say.
What we are reading against
You have not told us what kind of camera you shoot on, so this describes both roads rather than guessing at one. Answering that one question in the gear door makes every lesson below shorter.
Go and do this
Depth of field, with or without an aperture ring
Photograph something with depth to it, front to back, at a narrow aperture
- Shot at f/5.6 or narrower, which is where enough of the scene front-to-back comes into focus to see the effect.
ISO, and the trade nobody frames as a trade
Find light good enough that your camera does not have to strain for it
- Shot at ISO 800 or lower, which on most cameras is where the picture stops looking gritty.
The three of them at once
One photograph where all three settings were your decision rather than the camera's
- A shutter of 1/60 or faster.
- ISO 1600 or lower.
- An aperture of f/2.8 or narrower.
What this page does not know
This reads the settings, not the picture. It can tell you the shutter was open for a thirtieth of a second; it cannot tell you whether the photograph is any good, and nothing here is a mark. The settings are also editable. The file says what it says, and we take its word for it, which is fine for a drill you set yourself and would be worth nothing as proof of anything.
The file is read on the server, the four settings are kept, and the photograph itself is not stored.