SHUTTER SPEED

In the photo above, instead of freezing motion with a fast shutter speed, as was done with the wild dog photo earlier, this photo is intentionally blurry. This certainly give the photo more of an artistic feel, which may or may not be something you personally like, but it is an option. With the blur of the background and of the dog itself, the photo actually helps to portray the chaos and swiftness of a wild dog hunt, as a pack of these German shepherd-sized animals chased down an impala in Botswana. In this case, we are looking at a shutter speed of approximately 1/10th to 1/25th of a second.

Similarly, we can take the river photo from the previous section and see what it looks like with a slow shutter speed, too.