Photography Tip: Aperture Values with Mark Wallace

12 years 11 months ago - 10 years 11 months ago #50212 by PhotographyTalk
So in this episode Mark Wallace explains some useful things about your lenses aperture and why f/2.8 is a large aperture opening and f/22 is a small aperture opening. Mark also discusses the meanings of the numbers on many lenses. If you are just getting started in photography, or don't have a 100% understanding of how aperture works. This is a must watch.

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The following user(s) said Thank You: maanik, Lopezjose7, chakkaradeep, Adivery, sree2472, Kronisk
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12 years 11 months ago #50241 by Jordan Younce Photography
Great Tip! Thank you for posting!


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12 years 10 months ago #50592 by Silver Fox
This would have been a great tip when I was first getting started :thumbsup:


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12 years 6 months ago #148108 by RAvellone
New to this website, I am also relearning photography from back in my college days shooting film. Could you do a seg. on depth of field or if you have one, shoot me the tag so I may watch it. Thanks for this one though, it brought back alot of what I had forgotten.


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12 years 4 months ago #162256 by KevinA65
:agree: Silver Fox, Thank you Mark, another fantastic posting
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12 years 1 month ago #200849 by Kronisk
I have heard people trying to explain aperture to me a number of times without success. This is the first explanation I have heard that actually conveys what the setting means and what I really need to know in order to understand. I will be watching this again and again until I have the details committed to memory.


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12 years 1 month ago #200868 by farhadali
hi , this is very nice

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12 years 1 month ago #200897 by Martha
Yeap this is a keeper :thumbsup:


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12 years 1 month ago - 12 years 1 month ago #201043 by Baydream
This is great!
But the math :sick: Ask Jimmy Buffett.

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12 years 1 month ago #201215 by Kronisk

Baydream wrote: This is great!
But the math :sick: Ask Jimmy Buffett.

I am with you on that one. Today's oldies whinge and moan about "trendy" teaching methods, but I can tell you this much: at least today's teachers acknowledge that not everyone in their class is going to be or aspires to be a theoretical physicist.

And honestly, the math used in this vid at was at least explained in a manner that was followable and used the right props to make all types understand. Total contrast from the "x times y is what?" over and over method that the oldies mentioned above think everyone should be subjected to.


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11 years 10 months ago #226446 by markwallace
I'm so glad this video was helpful to you all. Understanding the aperture is a key to photography!
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11 years 9 months ago #232882 by sneharathod
Great job...


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10 years 11 months ago #278755 by Marte
That is such a simple and refreshing explanation!!
Yup , agree with some of the folks here , I would have given anything for this when I was starting instead of all the crude math behind it.
Enjoyed it a lot THANX!!!


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10 years 11 months ago #279786 by Kristy Blake

Silver Fox wrote: This would have been a great tip when I was first getting started :thumbsup:



Me too :thumbsup:


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