The video below is part 1 of 3 videos we’ll get to see over the next couple of weeks on shutter speed, aperture and ISO. The first video specifically looks at understanding shutter speed - what the shutter does, how it works, and how changing the shutter speed changes what your photographs look like. The video also looks at the different effects and outcomes you can create in your photographs by adjusting the shutter speed.

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Amy Renfrey writes a bi-weekly/occasional article for The Corner Blog. Amy is a digital photographer, a photography teacher, and author of the popular Digital Photography Success package as well as her ebook Powerful Landscape Photography. For more information, or to purchase her Photography Package, visit her site: Digital Photography Success and Powerful Landscape Photography. Amy also publishes a monthly photography ezine called Focus eMagazine which includes dozen of articles and tutorials, as well as hours of video each month. Click here to find out more and subscribe to Focus eMagazine.