Cascade Park in Elyria has a short hiking trail that leads to a small waterfall. Since I’m attempting to learn to use my camera better, I figured the waterfall would be a good place to play with shutter speed and a few other settings. My very basic understanding of shutter speed is that fast shutter speed = choppy water and slow shutter speed = smooth water.

This picture was taken with a shutter speed of 3/10 of a second.

This picture was taken with a shutter speed of 3/5 of a second.

While this picture was taken with a shutter speed of 1 second.

I unfortunately did not think to take a picture with a faster shutter speed to show the choppiness of the water. Maybe next time I venture out and play with shutter speed I’ll remember to do that.

I also think I’m getting better at editing photos. These three originally had completely different brightnesses. The last one seems a smidge brighter than the others, but is still fairly close.