have you ever noticed the little F numbers around the lens on a camera have
you ever wondered what they might mean it's called f-stop and it's a
measurement of the possible range of sizes for a camera's aperture which is
the opening in a camera through which light enters the wider the aperture is
the more light can get through onto the camera sensor which is necessary for
properly exposing lighter or darker scenes the f-stop number or focal ratio
indicates how much light is getting through and each marked f- stop is
either double or half as much light but it's not very intuitive because the
smaller numbers actually indicate wider aperture sizes now on some cameras like
cell phone cameras the f-stop or aperture size is automatically decided
for you but if you can adjust it manually it's worth doing if you want to
take a better picture by adjusting the aperture not only can you change the
brightness of an image but also the depth of field depth of field is
basically the full extent of everything that's in focus in a picture a deeper
depth of field means that more of the image is in focus and a shallower depth
of field means that less of the image is in focus Focus this means that a scene
can be photographed with the foreground and background blurred out which allows
for the main subject of the photograph to stand out more it looks really good
but when you widen the aperture the picture also gets brighter so you have
to compensate for that overexposure by adjusting other camera settings like ISO
or shutter speed some cameras like a DSLR can automatically adjust these
settings for you when put in aperture priority mode since a blurry background
can look really good if done correctly I used to always take pictures with the
aperture set as wide as possible so a low F stop to give myself the shallowest
possible depth of field however lately I've learned that this very shallow
depth of field is not always desirable this was shot with a macro lens and the
focus is millimeter thin making it difficult to see the whole subject it's
up to you how much or how little depth of field you want for your pictures and
videos and changing the aperture is a great way to control that but if you
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