Shutterspeed and Aperture
Understanding your camera might be the hardest thing as a beginner in photography.
Not only do you need to be creative and get inspired on what to direct your camera towards but you also need to understand all the different settings in order to get the photo you're after.
The main thing and the most vital one to understand and master is the combination of shutterspeed and aperture.
Shutter speed is the amount of time the camera hole stays open for when taking a photo.
The more light a camera lets into the "film" the brighter the result.
So if you are working with very long shutterspeeds, the photo will be brighter than working with short shutter speeds.
This is great to know if shooting in very bright or very dark situations.
The shutter speed also will play an important role in what is "stuck" on the final photography.
Imagine taking a photo of a speeding car with a long shutter speed, the car on the final piece will look like it's actually moving, while if you use very short speeds you'll be able to capture the look of the car but you probably can't tell if it's moving or not.
Aperture is the size of the hole that opens up.
The bigger the hole, the more light is being let in.
The aperture also has the capacity to adjust the depth of field, if you want a blurry background, you will have to go for the biggest hole, but if you on the other hand want a photo showing detail in the background as well as your object you would go for great depth of field i.
e.
a small hole opens up and lets less light in.
Aperture is measured in f numbers and the confusing bit might be the fact that big holes - shallow depth of field is measured with low numbers while small holes - great depth of field are measured with high numbers.
Working with Shutter speed and Aperture together is the fun bit.
First of all you need to know what type of photo you wish to take, are you taking a portraiture and need the background to be blurry you will need the aperture to be set with a low f number and then the shutterspeed has to work around this to achieve a good exposure.
Or maybe you want to capture someone jumping from a chair, then you will need to have a fast shutterspeed and the aperture will in that case have to work around the shutter to achieve the right exposure.
Not only do you need to be creative and get inspired on what to direct your camera towards but you also need to understand all the different settings in order to get the photo you're after.
The main thing and the most vital one to understand and master is the combination of shutterspeed and aperture.
Shutter speed is the amount of time the camera hole stays open for when taking a photo.
The more light a camera lets into the "film" the brighter the result.
So if you are working with very long shutterspeeds, the photo will be brighter than working with short shutter speeds.
This is great to know if shooting in very bright or very dark situations.
The shutter speed also will play an important role in what is "stuck" on the final photography.
Imagine taking a photo of a speeding car with a long shutter speed, the car on the final piece will look like it's actually moving, while if you use very short speeds you'll be able to capture the look of the car but you probably can't tell if it's moving or not.
Aperture is the size of the hole that opens up.
The bigger the hole, the more light is being let in.
The aperture also has the capacity to adjust the depth of field, if you want a blurry background, you will have to go for the biggest hole, but if you on the other hand want a photo showing detail in the background as well as your object you would go for great depth of field i.
e.
a small hole opens up and lets less light in.
Aperture is measured in f numbers and the confusing bit might be the fact that big holes - shallow depth of field is measured with low numbers while small holes - great depth of field are measured with high numbers.
Working with Shutter speed and Aperture together is the fun bit.
First of all you need to know what type of photo you wish to take, are you taking a portraiture and need the background to be blurry you will need the aperture to be set with a low f number and then the shutterspeed has to work around this to achieve a good exposure.
Or maybe you want to capture someone jumping from a chair, then you will need to have a fast shutterspeed and the aperture will in that case have to work around the shutter to achieve the right exposure.
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