@joshua_ong, if you search “Panning” here on Lenspiration, there’s a whole bunch of resources to explore on the topic. You might enjoy checking those out!
my brother and I experimented with slow shutter speeds when taking pictures of a waterfall in broad daylight. But we soon discovered that our pictures tended to be over-exposed when we slowed our shutter speeds.
That makes sense. The slower your shutter speed, the brighter your picture will be (there’s more time elapsing during which light comes into the camera). When that happens, you simply need to balance out the other two elements in the exposure trio, aperture and ISO, and you can correct your exposure. If you shoot in Full Manual, you have complete control over each one of the parts of the exposure trio: Shutterspeed, Aperture, and ISO.
Now the problem you’ll run into on a bright sunny day, like you mentioned here, is that you’ll reach a point where you just can’t compensate for the amount of light you’re allowing in with the slow shutterspeed, no matter how narrow your aperture is, or how low your ISO is. There’s nothing you can really do about that, other than buying an ND filter or something, or just waiting for it to get a little bit darker! There’s just a lot of light going on, so the photo becomes over-exposed due to the slow shutterspeed.
Not sure how much you’ve shot in Full Manual, or how familiar you are with the semi-manual modes, so let me know if I need to explain further. 🙂
