The aperture is how much light is let into the camera.

It is in the iris of the lens.

Its measured in F/stops.

Depth of field is what’s in focus in front or behind the subject.

A high F/stop is f/16 – f/22

This is a photo I took on the website with a high aperture f/16, this has made it so everything is in focus.

Here is a photo of me with a low shutter speed, this makes it so me the main subject is the primary focus of the image and the background is blurred to make it so I pop/stand out.

Here is a photo i took where the shutter speed is super low and is not able to capture the image correctly due to loads of light being taken in, the photo is out of focus causing it to come out blurry to a point where its hard to distinguish what it is, its came out similar to a photo by Ralph Eugene Meatyard.

Meatyard made his living as an optician, born in 1925 and died in 1976. He was a member of the “Lexington camera club” and pursued his passion for photography outside the mainstream. He experimented with various strategies including multiple exposures, motion blur, and other methods of photographic abstraction. Two of his series are particularly concerned with focus and depth of field, both stretching the expressive potential of photography, film and cameras when looking with the ordinary world. Here are some of his photos from his no focus collection.

– No focus- Reducing groups of human figures to indistinct abstractions, the artist proposes an alternate notion to the traditional photographic portrait.