![]() ![]() It's very useful if you want to have the camera quickly select the exposure for you or if you're in a scenario where the lighting is constantly changing (eg. The 'aperture priority' mode on your camera (often called Av mode) is a type of auto setting that lets you choose the aperture you want to use and the camera will figure the other settings out to expose the image. Here is a photo taken with a smaller aperture to make sure everything is in focus The 'f' stands for 'focal length' which means on a 50mm lens (a lens with a focal length of 50 millimetres) an f-stop of f/8 would mean the diameter of the aperture is 50 divided by 8 which equals 6.25 millimetres.īelow is a visual representation (not to scale) of the size of different apertures.īelow is an example of a shot taken at a large aperture so I could blur the mountains in the background. ![]() Aperture is measured in f-stops and is written as a fraction f/8, f/2.8, f/11, etc. To get a little confusing (feel free to skim over this paragraph). A big aperture has a small number and a small aperture has a large aperture. A larger aperture will make the background of the photo blurrier and a small aperture will make the background sharper. The bigger the aperture the more light is let through and the smaller the aperture the less light is let through. When you change your aperture, you’re making this hole larger or smaller. To put it simply, it's the hole in the lens that the light travels through before it hits the camera’s sensor. ![]() It gives you the ability to control how sharp or blurry the background of a photo is. The aperture of a camera is one of the things I think everyone should learn about when it comes to photography. ![]()
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