Shutter Speeds and Me

Day 6 of this tutorial is causing me a lot of trouble. I've always avoided dealing with shutter speeds, preferring either the automatic or scene modes and lately the aperture priority mode of my camera. I can get to grips with aperture, there really isn't a lot to understand. The bigger the f/number the smaller the aperture, the less light gets through to the lense and the more sharp the background is. The reverse is true for smaller f/numbers. My camera only goes from f/3.2 to f/8. I can deal with that.

Shutter speeds elude me though. I understand that the faster the shutter speed the more frozen the subject is, the slower the more blurred. But there is so many shutter speeds guessing the right one is difficult. So this day, I have a feeling, is going to last a couple. I hope to crack it and post some of my results tomorrow. This is a whole new world of photography to me.