Which shutter speed should I use?

This is a basic, but essential, conundrum. I often seem people using the wrong shutter speed, and then being disappointed with their 'blurry' images, or not being blurred enough! So, I made this chart... :) it is not law, but more a good rule-of-thumb that will give you a good starting point for your images... every situation will need tweeking, and that will get easier as you play around with shutter speed more. :) I hope this helps.

Here are some examples of different shutter speeds and the fun you can have with playing with them! The possabilities are almost endless! :)

Street life

This mage was created by stacking several 30 second exposures to generate long trails.

The Milky Way

30 second exposure on a tripod... Any longer and the stars would start to blur, any less and I would have to increase the ISO even more (already 6400).

I'm late, I'm late

I was int he front of a train between airport terminals... I wanted to capture the motion so used a shutter speed of 1/2 seconds... it was long enough to get great blur, but fast enough for me to brace the camera against the glass and get a sharp image on the tracks!

There she blows...

I used a shutter speed of 1/1000 in order to freeze the action in the geyser.

The potter

I wanted to get a sharp image of the man but get some motion blur in the spinning wheel... Normally i would use 1/200 for the situation, but I had to reduce it to 1/25 in order to get the balance right.

Glide

In order to get a nice sharp image, i had to use a high shutter speed 1/3200.

Rest

But when the pelican was resting on a rock, I could reduce the shutter speed to 1/640

King with a kill

Since the kingfisher was satin the shade very still, i could use a low shutter speed of 1/200 and reduce my ISO in order to get better image quality (iso 800).

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I. Which shutter speed should I use?

Which shutter speed should I use?