Camera Techniques

Camera Setting/Techniques

The aperture - Is known as  the circular curtain inside the lens. It is the unit of measurement that defines the size of the opening in the lens that can be adjusted to control the amount of light reaching the film or digital sensor.

The F-Stop refers to the 'lens focal length'. This is used to manipulate the amount of light that comes into the camera.

The smaller the F-Stop (camera number) there will be less light going into the camera, this allows everything to be more focused as well as for a wider depth of field.

 

Depth of field is how much of the shot is in focus. The more the depth of field (wide depth) means the more you will have in focus in your image. The smaller the depth of field (narrow depth) means only certain parts of the shot are in focus and the background is mainly blurred.