Arperture

                                 Aperture

by Shayna Kavanagh

 An aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels.

The more light that the lens has access to, the better the photograph because camera lenses rely on light bouncing off of objects to get a picture similar to the one pupils can detect. 

The size of the stop is one factor that affects the depth of field. Smaller stops (larger f numbers) produce a longer depth of field, allowing objects at a wide range of distances to be in focus at the same time.

 The more or less light affects the exposure because an overexposed photograph will blur out the lightest details and an underexposed photograph will blur out the darkest details.

I found it interesting how aperture, which I'd never heard of before today could make you be able to have a picture lit up how you want without editing it. I've kinda always wondered what the scrolling sound in cameras was and now it makes sense so I kind of feel a little stupid but that's that this class is for, hey?

I knew about the depth of field because pretty soon after learning how to work with these cameras I learned it's not as easy as a 'point and shoot' because these cameras actually focus, unlike my phone cameras