At this point, you should know your minimum shutter speed for a sharp shot. You shouldn’t drop below this speed – but you can always go above it, depending on your exposure needs.

“Minimum” normally means “smallest” but here it means the longest time. If I increase the duration of the shutter opening, then I would go “above” it, i.e. 1 second is longer than, or “above” 1/100th of a second. But when the article says

you can always go above it

it seems to mean that you can always go to a shorter shutter speed.

As a beginner for whom this article is intended, I’m rather confused.

The risk factors are both shooting fast movement and working in low light (and for a photographer, this can be considered any, except for a sunny summer afternoon). A simple example: in the “Sports” scene program, automatic shutter speed is shorter than usual in order to achieve a clear transmission of movement. But the machine does not know all the features of our shooting. After all, it is necessary to take into depositphotos the type of sport, and the level of training of athletes, and many other specific factors. As a result, automation may not guess with shutter speed, blurry photos will turn out.

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