I’ve started researching the best way to explain shutter control for the SHUTTER control online class!

I’m wanting to use objects in the home so that it is easy for students to practice.

Today, I used these vintage dominoes to test if they would convey a fast shutter (freezing motion) and then a slow shutter (capturing motion.)

This test photo is 1/30th of a sec. A slow shutter.

**1/30th of a second. Focus is on the middle domino.**

And it really is all about T I M I N G because this photo is also set at 1/30th of a sec, but because I chose to click the shutter just a little after they started falling I got a more blurred, in motion effect!

**1/30th of a second, but I chose to click the shutter just a little bit after they started falling.**

It’s really all about the STORY you want to tell!

Which one do you feel tells a better story?

Here are the fast shutter photos:

**Shutter 1/640 of a second. Focus is on the middle domino.**

at shutter 1/640 of a second it freezes the motion of the falling dominoes!

**Shutter 1/320 of a sec . Now either 1/320 of a sec is not fast enough to capture a little space in between as they are falling or maybe it was the timing and when I clicked the shutter.**

Maybe the shutter 1/320 of a second would have worked and had a little space in between the dominos so they better conveyed that they are falling… or maybe it was when I clicked the shutter. Playing with the shutter is such a fun activity and it is all about experimenting.