A Quick Start Guide to Aperture for New Photographers!
Have you heard the terms aperture, f-stop and depth of field and wondered what the **** they all are, and how they all work together?
Then this is the podcast episode for you! Today, listen is as we go over what Aperture is, what the term F-stop means, and how this impacts your depth of field, and how this changes the look of your photo.
In this episode you’ll learn:
What exactly aperture is, and how it is really just a fancy term for a hole!
How you determine the size of the aperture, and what this looks like on your camera
How aperture changes the way your images LOOK by changing the depth of field
What depth of field is, and how you control it
A quick exercise you can do to see aperture and depth of field in action.
Here is what aperture looks on your camera lens with the blades making the aperture larger or smaller:
And how the size of this hole changes when you change the F stop:
This is an example of an image with a large depth of field (everything near to far in focus)
And an example of a shallow depth of field (with the background blurred out)
Want more? Check these out!
Aperture Examples: How to Use Aperture in Photography For Different Looks
How to Choose Your Settings in Manual Mode
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