Read and Respond 3--Introduction to Apature

1. If you master Apature you you gain real creative control over your camera. 

2. When you move an f/stop to the next smaller number you're doubling the amount of opening in your lense which will let in more light. 

3. When you move from one shutter speed to the next smaller, your camera takes less time or a smaller fraction of a second so the photo will be taken more quickly and will give you a crisper shot. 

4. A large apature will decrease your depth of field while a small apature will give you a longer depth of field. The size of your apature will determine your depth of field. 

5. The best way to get your head around apature is to actually get out your camera and do some experimenting. 

6.  For landscape photography you use a small apature this ensures that the whole photograph, foreground and background are in focus. 

For portrait photography you'd use a large apature to ensure that your subject is in focus and your background is nice a blurry. 

For macro photography you'd use a large apature to make the important elements of their subject is in focus while the rest of the image is completely blurry.