06/09/2026
Continuing With 4 Mistakes With Shutter Speed:
3)The Image Is Overexposed; The slower your shutter speed, the longer the sensor is exposed to light-which means, all other factors being equal, a brighter image. Too bright and and it becomes overexposed territory, and it's hard to recover an image that's been blown out.
Exposure from the perspective of the camera is measured in a unit called a "stop". Every time that you half or double the speed of the shutter, from 1/125th of a second to 1/250th. For Example, you increase or decrease the exposure of the image by one stop, this is equal to doubling or halving your ISO, or by widening or narrowing your aperture by one f stop.
Now, there are many ways to fix overexposure, reduced ISO, small aperture and sometimes even using a different metering mode - but unless you're specifically aiming for a shutter-related effect (create blur or motion freezing) then it's best to start by increasing the shutter speed.
4) The Image Is Partly Black: This last common shutter speed mistakes involves external flashes and speedlight. If you think that flashes are so fast that it doesn't matter what shutter speed you use, then you'd be correct for the most part. But, as it turns out, there's one situation where flashes and shutters do not play together.
That situation is when your shutter speed is too fast. Every modern camera has a "Flash Sync Speed" spec that states that the faster shutter speed you can have while using flash. What happens when you flash with a faster shutter speed? You get partial-black images. This is due to the way that shutters work.
There are ways to use flash with higher shutter speeds, the most common solution being the "High Sync Speed" feature. If your images are being blacked out snd you don't have HSS, then you will have to resort to using a slower shutter speed.
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