Knowing about Aperture
Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 12:00PM | Tom S. ;)
14 inch pencil, shot using a large aperture, F2.8
As we mentioned yesterday, we'll be taking some time during each meeting, certainly at least one of the meetings each month, to cover a subject in photography from introductory to the more advanced. It was suggested that understanding Aperture would be a good start so that is what we'll do.
Aperture is one of three aspects of exposure that we need to understand to control the camera and the results from it. The other two beyond Aperture are Shutter Speed and ISO. All three form a triangle.
But to start off, before the class, here is a good introductory discussion with examples from the Digital Photography School. The read is relatively short but the only way you are going to really understand it, is to grab a camera and practice what author suggests. Take your camera off auto and put it into Aperture Priority Mode (where you select the Aperture and the camera selects the shutter speed) and see if you can duplicate what is demonstrated in Introduction to Aperture.
Aperture, F-Stop in Camera Settings