Aperture

The aperture is a hole behind the camera's shutter that allows light into the camera. To move from automatic mode to manual mode of improve my photographic skills I learnt how to use aperture to improve the quality of photos. I learnt that the size of aperture can be adjusted to allow more or less light in - this is determined using the F stop settings (F 22 being the smallest setting and F3.5 being the largest). Controlling the aperture width also determines depth of field.

In this image I used a large aperture setting of 3.5. As you can see the focus of the little house is of great quality, whereas the quality of the focus lacks in the background. This large aperture setting is suitable to use when taking a photo of an object rather than a landscape, as it enables the focus to be concentrated on the object only rather than everything around it in the photo.

In these images I showed the contrast between a large aperture setting and a small aperture setting.The image above was taken with the setting F3.5 so as you can see the person is in focus but the background is blurred. In contrast, in the image below I used the setting of F.22 (small aperture) and in result not only is the person in good quality focus but the background is also. Also, the background in the image below is also much brighter with the smaller aperture setting than the larger aperture setting above as more light has travelled through. The smaller aperture is suitable for taking pictures of landscapes.