What is Aperture in camera?

What is Aperture in camera?

What is aperture settings? by Hasif Ahmed

You’re a photographer? or you want to be one photographer? Whoever you are, the concept of aperture settings must be clear in order to take good photos. Either you’re a beginner or you’re interested to know about it or even you’re doing your school homework, this my short article shall help you with it. Let’s begin the fun and explain you in my own words.

Q. What is Aperture?

A. Aperture is a type of breach or diameter that passes the light in your camera through lens. You didn’t got anything or did you? Okay again, aperture is like your eyes, when you open your eyes then you start consuming light through pupil (the black circle in the middle). This pupil here act like the camera’s aperture. So, when you click shot button, then the shutter opens and the total diameter of the opening passage is the measurement of your aperture settings. That opening hole size determines the amount of light the camera will absorb.

Q. How Aperture is measured?

A. It is usually measured in F-stop for example f/22 or f/2.8 in a manual aperture control settings in a DSLR camera. In compact digital cameras, this things are automatically adjusted for which those cameras are never considered as PRO (otherwise photographers wouldn’t have been earning big sum of money with their SLrs).

The measurement kinda works in the opposite way as we generally might think because these settings are expressed in decimal numbers. Remember the following key function of F-stop: Continue reading

Shutter Speed Fundamental

Shutter Speed Fundamental

Shutter Speed Article by HASIF.INFO

Hello folks, it’s been many days I ain’t publishing any articles ever since I started my own blogging. While I was doing photography in last week (which is off working days for me) I came up with shutter speed issues/complains being raised by many people surrounding me. So, I thought of writing some little information about it which might help many others to understand this small yet powerful feature of a DSLR /Advanced cameras.

Let’s being from basic (i know it’s little boring but read, it is interesting to know these stuffs).

Shutter of a Camera

Q. What is shutter in a camera?

A. Simply it is a window (as like in your house) between the camera and lens. Which opens and closes in the event of snapping photographs. At your left is a sample picture for understanding what is shutter in your camera.

Q. What happens when it opens and closes back?

A. When the shutter is opened after you hit the SHOT button, then the camera starts getting light from outside while it snaps immediately and completes the process of taking a picture. If you ask, then yes, earlier the place is all dark and it needs to remain dark at all time. (I wouldn’t have answered this question but seems like many people wants to know it so here you go) for dummies . Continue reading