You have been shooting your photos in auto mode for far too long. You want to take the plunge and kick those photos up a notch. Where do you start though? Aperture, exposure, ISO, slow lenses, fast lenses, cake or pie? These new ideas start flooding in when you start reading up on how to go beyond auto shooting mode. Take a deep breath and relax.
One of the biggest areas so many photographers deal with is the exposure triangle. This is the correlation of ISO, Aperture, and Exposure. Each of these items plays a major role in your photos, how they look, and influence the overall feel of the shot. Even more complicated is how closely these three items intertwined with one another.
For this article, let’s focus on one aspect of this triangle in aperture. A more common term used for aperture is f-stop. I am not going to go into all the mathematics that comes behind aperture. You math gurus can easily hit up Wikipedia to get your formula geekery on. Let’s get the show started.
Aperture is one of those weird numbers in photography. By weird, I mean the smaller the number the larger the aperture the smaller the depth of field. The first part of this is the smaller number equals a larger aperture. Read More→
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I will keep these awesome stories for the campfire though. I’m just a man, taking pictures, trying to make a living. I ditched my education in computers in favor of pursuing my passion for photography. I enjoy a good cold beer on a warm day. I have a fondness of the outdoors.. I have enjoyed years capturing life’s unscripted moments. Hopefully, I can enjoy many more years of slacking off without fear of those grizzlies taking me out before my time.
My Philosophy is to capture those non-scripted moments. To capture the little details that this world really has to offer. From weddings to insects, I enjoy capturing the life, the details, and the moments that come and go in a flash.