Thursday, September 6, 2018

Aperture. What the heck is it?!


Being the amateur photographer that I am, the biggest struggle is figuring out what all of these terms are. So, I might as well talk about one that has recently been discussed. Aperture has is described as being one of the pillars of photography. The other two are shutter speed and ISO. Of the research that I have done, it seems that aperture is the most important. It can make or break your photo.

Aperture can change the exposure of the photo. (Amount of light per unit area) I think this photo does a great job of explaining this visually.

As you can see, the photo at f/22 is very much underexposed. While at f/2.8 the photo is overexposed. Photography is a game of trade offs. Finding the magic somewhere in the middle is the key!


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