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by Chris
(Takahagi City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan)

There wasn't an earthquake, today.

I encountered a homeless man at Ueno Station, in Tokyo. I wanted to get a candid shot... but instead asked permission. He was sitting in light... mostly from inside the station (behind him). Although there was enough light on him... he still turned out blurry. I'm guessing I needed a longer exposure? Help (please)!

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Jan 19, 2010
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Blurry
by: Anonymous

If you use a longer exposure, you'll get even MORE blur. You needed to use a faster shutter speed. If you use the shutter priority setting on your camera, (assuming you were using a DSLR camera), you would get a photo that was less blurry. When you use this setting, you set the shutter speed you need and the camera will set the aperture to get the right exposure.
For a photo like this one, I would have used a shutter speed of 250 and maybe overexposed by 1/3 stop.

Jan 19, 2010
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Shutter speed will stop motion. Set it as high as you can. In this case I may have used 5.6 f stop and maybe 320 or so Shutter Speed. I can't really tell since I wasn't there. 5.6 opens up to let light in and it will blur the background and Shutter speed stops motion.

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