Video may be everywhere these days, but a still image has a quality which allows us to study in detail a moment frozen in time.
This activity of bursting a water balloon I’ve used to illustrate the concept of equivalent exposure in photography.
Whenever we meter for a scene, we have to ask ourselves what our intent is before pushing the shutter release button.
In this instance, we are trying to use our highest shutter speed 1/4000 sec on our camera the Nikon D3400.
Figuring Exposure
So that means outdoors on a cloudy day and the physical limitation of the widest lens opening of our lens, f5.6, we had to increase the ISO of the camera to 800.
Also, to increase our chances of success, we change the drive mode to “Continuous” and we also manually focused the lens .
That left only the matter of timing, and we had the person popping the balloon count to 3.
Those with cameras would hold down the shutter when they heard the count reached 2.
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