Example Of Camera Aperture

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CAMERA EXPOSURE

A photographs exposure determines how light or dark an image will appear when it’s been captured by your camera. Believe it or not, this is determined by just three camera settings, APERTURE, ISO and SHUTTER SPEED (the exposure triangle).

EXPOXURE TRAINGLE: APERTURE, ISO and SHUTTER SPEED

Aperture: controls the area over which light can enter your camera
Shutter speed: controls the duration of the exposure
ISO speed: controls the sensitivity of your camera’s sensor to a given amount of light

Aperture

In my view aperture is where a lot of the wonderful happens in photography.
What is Aperture?
Aperture is a hole within a lens or Aperture is the opening …show more content…

The larger hole opening from the lens the more light that gets inside and the smaller hole opening from the lens the less light get inside.
The size of the opening is measured in “F-Stop” number.

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This number normally falls between 1.4 and 32 but can go slightly beyond that range. Standard f-stop numbers would be as follows: 1.4, 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22 and 32.The large apertures (where lots of light gets in) are given f/stop smaller numbers and smaller apertures (where less light gets in) have larger f-stop numbers.

The images below show the effect of aperture on the exposure of the photo. The images show shots using the largest lens opening to the smallest. In this example, the ISO and shutter speed remain constant to isolate the effect of aperture on the exposure of the photograph.

In the example photos above, the photo taken at F/5.6 has the correct exposure. Did you notice that the photos taken with wider aperture is overexposed and photos taken with smaller aperture is underexposed.

The Aperture Priority Mode is usually represented by an Av or an A on your camera …show more content…

My camera sensor only needed 1/2000th of a second to fully capture this photograph. Now what would have happened if I had ISO 100 on my camera instead? My sensor would have needed 8 times more time to capture the same scene, which is 1/250th of a second. At that speed, I would have introduced motion blur into my picture, because the birds were moving faster than that. In short, I would have ruined the picture.
When to use low ISO
When there is plenty of light, you should always use the lowest ISO, to retain the most detail and to have the highest image quality. There are some cases where you might want to use low ISO in dim or dark environments – for example, if you have your camera mounted on a tripod or sitting on a flat surface. In that case, bear in mind that your camera will most likely need more time to capture the scene and anything that is moving is probably going to look like a ghost. Just kidding, of course! That’s my lovely nephew being the subject of my long exposure test. I set the camera to the lowest ISO to retain the detail, which also resulted in a long exposure of 5 seconds. My nephew sat still, while my friend stepped in for a brief moment to introduce the ghost

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