Aperture

By: Jiat Photography

If you want to start using Manual mode, you need to learn the basics and how they work. The three most important once are:

- Aperture

- Shutter Speed

- ISO

Before proceeding to Manual mode, you need to fully understand how these three works because they are very connected with each other. 

Aperture is basically known as "the opening of the lens". It is a device that controls how much light goes into the camera.

As you can see on the picture, different aperture has different effects on the picture. The higher aperture means that the opening of the lens is going to be really small. The smaller the aperture means that the opening of the lens is going to be really big. The lighting will affect the picture.

Some camera lenses doesn't go up to f/1.4, sometimes it only stops at f/4. Macro lenses has the ability to go up to f/1.4 because you usually use apertures that small when taking close up pictures.

Tips:

- When it's dark outside, use a a very small aperture because you have limited lighting. You would want as much light as possible in your camera.

- When it's sunny and bright outside, stay away from small aperture. Use at least f/4 and above preferably.