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"Step 1 - What Is Aperture? The best way to understand setting your Aperture is to think of it as the pupil of an eye.  The wider it gets, the more light it lets in. Together, the Aperture settings, shutter speed and ISO produce an exposure. The diameter of the Aperture size changes, allowing more or less light onto the sensor. This depends on the situation and the scene being photographed. Creative uses of different Aperture sizes and their consequences are tackled in Step 2. Put simply, when talking about light and exposure, wider Apertures allow more light and narrower ones allow less."

Small Aperture? What kind of a silly name is that? Well, when you take photos with a small Aperture, you get a greater depth of field, so you get a feel for what's going on in the background. That's what this site is about: a slightly deeper, more overall approach to photography - and all the fun things that comes with it. And besides, we rather like the name.

Aperture, shutter speed and ISO

Welcome to lesson two! The next two lessons are going to focus on camera basics. First off, we're going to talk about aperture - also called f-stop - and shutter speed. Those two things alone put me off for a very long time when I was a beginner and considering learning more about photography. All the years I spent growing up while I was young, I had a camera in my hands. I have boxes full of photographs of school events, slumber parties, the poodle I had growing up and all of my friends acting goofy. I figure some of that will make good blackmail material later on in life, but I digress… The point is that I was born with a love for taking pictures, but all of the crazy technical sounding stuff was very scary to me. If that's where you are, I'm here to tell you that you have nothing to be scared of. It takes a while to get the feel of how to know exactly what you're doing, but the basic concepts are quite easy, and I'll give you some tools you can use to help you along until it all comes naturally to you.

"A big stumbling block for many new camera users is how to figure out how much depth of field a particular image will have it in given the focal length of the lens, the aperture used and the distance to the subject. "

Digital cameras can be put in different photo shooting modes. The most used mode is automatic - the only thing you need to do is point and shoot. However understanding and using the other options will allow you to get better photos in certain scenarios.