aperture
aperture, F-stops, what the what?
Aperture is the hole or opening in your lens that lets in light. The size of the opening determines how much light comes into your camera as well as how sharp or blurry the background is going to be in your image. The aperture in this image below was shot at F 2.8. See the…
Read Moreyour aperture and changing your focus point
Remember aperture? If not, check out my definitions page. It’s the opening in your lens that allows you to do two things. One, it allows more light in and two, it controls your depth of field (how much is going to be sharply in focus in the background. These two pictures below are taken at…
Read Moresettings & aperture
My manual settings for these two shots: ISO – 400 aperture – 2.8 shutter speed – 1/320 lens – 50mm 1.2 ISO – 250 aperture – 2.8 shutter speed – 1/250 lens – 50mm 1.2 Did you notice that both of these images have the same aperture (the same f-stop)? They are both set at…
Read Moreblurry background
Wanted to show you what it looks like when my lens is pretty wide open (low aperture number)… Manual settings: ISO – 250 (in full shade, but a very sunny day) aperture – 2.2 (focused on subject but wanting the background to fall off) shutter speed – 1/1000 second (just found the shutter speed that…
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