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RE: Photography Basics - 1a - The Exposure Triangle: Aperture
@roby17269 Because you're an excellent photographer and I want to know if I left out anything significant here.
@roby17269 Because you're an excellent photographer and I want to know if I left out anything significant here.
Hey there - sorry for taking so long! I did not get a notice of you mentioning me :/
In any case... I'm going to go a bit purist on you :)
Meaning... the "triangle" for me controls the brightness of the resulting image. Exposure, if defined as the quantity of light that hits the sensor, is controlled only by aperture and shutter speed. I know that this may get confusing especially for beginners, and it gets a bit philosophical... but in my mind these are the correct terms
That's a good point. If we define exposure as the amount of light hitting a sensor, and ISO is the sensitivity of a sensor, it doesn't really relate to the former.
For the sake of brevity I'll leave it out for now.
Thanks!
Apart from that, I think you've hit all the basic concepts :)
I would perhaps expand on how modern cameras deal with these by looking at the modes (auto, A, T/S, M, auto ISO and exposure comp), although I understand that it's be difficult to be generic.
I'd also probably expand on DOF a bit :)
But hey I'm not the one writing...
Haha, Thanks Roby, much appreciated.
I'll definitely go into the nuances a bit later. For now, I just wanted to give people a gentle nudge towards getting out of manual.
A look at the different shooting modes, and how they're offered on digital cameras would be a great idea for a begginer post.
Thanks!
I think you mean "getting out of auto"? :)
You did touch on aperture priority in the first post... In any case there is always time :)
Out of auto, into manual.
There is :)!