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The Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure: ISO

This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. The week, John talks about ISO. What is ISO? ISO describes the sensitivity rating of your camera’s sensor. The sensor records the light that enters through the

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The Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure: Aperture & lens choice

This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. The week, John tells how the aperture is fundamental to choosing a lens. Maximum aperture explained The maximum aperture describes a lens’s light-gathering ability when the aperture

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The Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure: Depth of field

This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. The week, John covers depth of field. Depth of field With large apertures(low numbers, e.g., f/1.4, f/2, f/2.8) you can expect a shallow depth of field.

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The Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure: Electronic shutters

This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. Mechanical shutters have been a part of photography since the very beginning, when the “shutter unit” was a lens cap or a hat in front of the lens.

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Slow shutter speed lets the car blur against a streaked background of light.

The Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure: How the shutter works

This series of articles is excerpted from Rocky Nook’s Enthusiast’s Guide to Exposure by John Greengo covers the controls — shutter, aperture and ISO. The shutter speed describes the amount of time each pixel on the sensor is exposed to light. The actual speed of the shutter movement doesn’t change

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The Enthusiast’s Guide to Travel Photography: Traveling solo

The Enthusiast’s Guide to Travel published by Rocky Nook — in this excerpt, author Jordana Wright shares her experience of being on a journey by yourself. The unexpected My first solo travel experience happened unexpectedly. My husband and I had spent months planning and preparing for a massive forty-five-day photographic

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