: About Me

Hello,

My name is Jeff Galbraith, and I am a photographer from Saint John, NB on Canada's east coast. I own and operate www.jeffgalbraithphotography.ca where I offer photography tips, free wallpaper, stock photography, high quality prints and eBooks on photography.

My passion is ...

Photography.

I know too much about ...

The way our government works.

My parents always told me ...

To be polite.

My childhood ambition ...

To be a cowboy.

My favorite memory ...

Canoeing on a calm river and it started to rain what looked like diamonds.

Why I write ...

To set free some of the stuff rattling around inside my head.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am reading a lot of Charles De Lint, watching as little television as possible, and listening to Bach, Vivaldi and Spirit of the West.

My first job ...

A summer job as a labourer at a warehouse.

My best moment ...

When I married my wife Rose.

My inspiration ...

Nature.

Arts & Humanities > Photography Using shutter speed effects in digital photography

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Shutter speed is perhaps the most creative adjustment available to the digital photographer. It allows us to freeze action or use motion blur to create a variety of effects, and is expressed in seconds or fractions of seconds depending on the length of exposure. A high shutter speed (1/1000 of a second or higher) can freeze even very fast moving objects dead in their tracks. However, you will need to keep a couple of things in mind: 1.) You are going to need a brightly lit subject as shutter speeds this high don't allow your camera much time to gather light for exposure. You can get around...

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