Last week I played with the Aperture, today I tried messing with the Shutter Priority setting (the S setting on the dial). I can set the shutter anywhere from 30 seconds to 1/4000 second on my D40x.

Marianna and I were having a bit of fun in the galley, so I grabbed my camera and set the shutter speed high.



The resulting shot has the sugar grains crisply frozen in mid-fall.

I cranked the CMD dial the other way about and had Marianna pour the rest of the sugar into the bowl.



This time the sugar grains are streaming blurrily into the bowl. Her hand and the whisk are also a bit blurred as she was incorporating the sugar into the eggs, but I really like sense of motion the slower shutter speed gives.

Now, if only we had a waterfall around. That would be awesome to experiment on!

I could look for fountains, vehicles, the tide streaming through certain channels, I wonder if I could pan with and capture a bird flying? That would be incredible! Cormorants fly pretty fast, but level. The herons and the egrets are slower so they might be easier to keep up with. Pelicans glide but the blackbirds swoop, that'd be hard to capture!