2.3. APERTURE and its EFFECTS PartIII - how to blur the background in portrait photography
The Aperture plays an important part in beautiful portraits. Only when you know how to set the aperture and what the aperture does, you can create the great blurred backgrounds that professional photographers do. A blurry background is the secret behind many great portraits, and you can only achieve it, knowing everything about aperture.
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Just a short welcome to our free photography course
1. Exposure
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An intro to exposure and its components Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO
1.1. Aperture
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Did you know that the Aperture is just a hole in the lens of your camera and that you can compare it to a window to better understand photography?
1.2. Shutter Speed
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The secrets behind Shutter Speed and how the shutter in your camera works. Take better photos by understanding Shutter Speed
1.3. ISO
• 1.3. ISO explained - learn about ISO ...
ISO is a very important component in photography. With modern cameras you can take much better use of ISO. But what is ISO and how does ISO influence your images?
2. The effects of Aperture and Shutter Speed
• 2. The EFFECTS of APERTURE and SHUTTE...
Aperture and Shutter Speed can do much more than just brightening up your image. Aperture is important to blur the background of your portraits and Shutter Speed will freeze your images when you photograph fast movement, or blur the water of waterfalls.
2.1. The effects of Aperture Part I
• 2.1. APERTURE and its EFFECTS Part I ...
See how the Aperture changes the sharpness of your foreground and background. In this movie we make an Aperture experiment that you can easily follow with your own camera.
2.2. The EFFECTS of APERTURE Part II
• 2.2. APERTURE and its EFFECTS PartII ...
learn which aperture to choose in different situations. This video covers aperture settings macro photography, landscape photography and architecture photography
Aperture is perhaps the most important factor when it comes to making your images stand out of those of your friends and colleges.