Posts Tagged “Depth Of Field”
Essentially, exposure is the light your camera turns into an image. It’s determined by the brightness of the light, the amount of time it hits the camera’s sensor, and the ISO “sensitivity” of the sensor. Every exposure is controlled by aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. These three settings together are sometimes called the “exposure triangle”….
Today, I present a lesson. I can’t call it a lesson learned, because I’m still learning it. The lesson is: pay attention to your aperture, and choose it wisely. On this particular day, I forgot about that, and I’m still kicking myself over it. I was on a vacation, staying on the coast of Maine….
One day this summer I got up well before dawn, to load gear into the car and drive down to a favorite location in the Killbuck Marsh area, some twenty miles south. I parked the car just off the side of the dirt road, strapped gear onto my back, and headed into a field of…
For beginners, one of the more slippery concepts in photography is the f-stop. What the heck is it, why are the numbers so weird, why do they seemingly run backward, what’s it do, and what should you set yours to? First, what the heck is it? It’s just a number, representing the relative size of…