Here we go, another video. I haven’t posted these as often as I had planned or hoped, but such is life. I am driving in the car while recording this, as you will see. My attempt to make the most of my drive time on the way home from an engagement shoot this past weekend. The shoot was a lot of fun and I will be posting a preview for Haley and Matthew in the next few days so stay tuned for that.
I hope this makes some sense. These videos are geared toward those just beginning in photography so if you have been doing this for awhile you probably won’t get anything out of this but a good laugh at me on camera. :-)
Scroll down once the video is over to see some images I posted that show what I am talking about.
In these images below you can see the difference the aperture settings make in each image. The aperture setting is the number following the ‘f’. In all three images I was focusing on the face of the red turtle.
Image #1– This I shot ‘wide open’, meaning my aperture is open as wide is it will go with the lens I was using. See how shallow a depth of field (DOF) that is? The only thing in focus is the red turtle I was focusing on.
Image #2– This I shot at f/5.0, which is kind of a mid-range aperture setting. Much more of the image is clear compared to Image #1, but the background is still buttery and the other two turtles aren’t as sharp as the red one.
Image #3– This image was shot stopped down as far as I could go with the lens I was using, which is f/16. Notice how all three of the turtles are basically equally in focus and you can even see the pattern of the pillows on my couch in the background.
Well, there you go. I hope that was helpful to someone reading this. All of that is a very brief overview of aperture settings. There can be a number of variables that determine the individual results of each image but this is a good starting point.
Until next time…
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