Shutter speeds Advice?

[Sebastian 16]

My camera is a canon powershot S3 IS the shutter speeds are labled as auto high 80 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800. i have been trying to take pictures of water droplets. But i havent really figured how to use the most of my camera does any one have advice?

Doesn't seem right to me.

 

[davebmck]

Doesn't look like your shutter speed is high enough. What setting did you use?

 

[Sebastian 16]

High is what it said im not sure exactly what to use a high shutter speed for either

 

[sburatorul]

don't know about your camera but i supose it has a manual mode... so use that to experiment with high shutter speeds like 1/500 or above if you want to capture water droplets (high shutter speed is used to freeze motion, lower shutter speed is used to give a sense of action... be careful not to go to low)

 

[lockwood81]

With water drops its hard to focus on them also...so along with a faster shutter speed...1500 or higher...you will need to pre focus on something the same distance as the water drops.

Hope that is helpful...

(FYI: the above picture was at 1/2500)

 

[ann]

the metadata shows this photo was taken at 1/2500, so perhaps it is the focusing issue as that speeds should have frozen the drops