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Setting your aperture

Setting your aperture

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Setting your aperture

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- Let's get in-depth on the subject of being blurry, aperture. Get it? 'Cause of depth of field? Oh, never mind. Anyway, similar to your camera's shutter speed, aperture controls how much light will be exposed on your camera sensor by creating a smaller or larger hole for the light to pass through. The difference is shutter speed affects the amount of time the sensor is exposed to light, while aperture affects the amount of light the sensor is exposed to. The aperture on your camera is represented in what are called f-stops, and the basic principle to know is that higher f-stop numbers equal less light, while lower f-stop numbers equal higher amounts of light, and this is mainly important to know because it affects your depth of field. Depth of field is basically what's in focus in your frame. So lower f-stops will result in a shallower depth of field, like you see here with the background nicely blurred out, while…

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