Harris Shutter

Harris Shutter is a technique of photography used by the photographers to give a rainbow effect to their images. The photographer should be well adept in the usage of filters to make full effect of the Harris Shutter. The triple filters of Red, Green and Blue should be used in the correct proportion.

The camera should be kept in a steady position while capturing the image with a Harris Shutter effect. The same frame of film should be re-exposed through Red, Green and Blue filters in turn. Such a procedure will help in the generation of a rainbow color effect around any of the objects that makes a motion within the frame.

The photographers opt for the Harris Shutter effect with a particular visualization in the back of their mind. They go this effect for those images where their subjects are locomotive. The waterfalls, men in a busy street, blowing clouds over a landscape often find the blessing of Harris Shutter effect.

The camera should be suitably chosen to capture images with a Harris Shutter technique. The cameras allowing in-register multiple exposures should be used for the purpose. The camera should also have the probation of filter change in the front of the lens.

The digital photography has made the Harris Shutter a simple procedure to achieve. The photographer only needs to capture three color photographs on the same location. The rest lies on the software to mix colors of red, green and blue in correct proportion to give a Harris Shutter effect.