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    The document provides a cheat sheet on basic camera settings including aperture, ISO, shutter speed, and how they affect exposures. It explains that aperture controls the size of the lens opening and depth of field, ISO adjusts the camera's light sensitivity, and shutter speed determines how long the sensor is exposed. It recommends learning to use the exposure triangle of aperture, ISO, shutter speed to properly expose images, and to shoot in raw format for more editing flexibility.

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    LIGHT STALKING

    CAMERA CRAFT CHEAT SHEET

    Exposure What Your Camera Settings Do


    Learn what these camera settings do and you can basically control the image output of any
    camera.

    Aperture
    Aperture controls the size of the opening in the lens. A narrow
    The "exposure triangle" made up of opening puts as much as possible in focus. A wide opening throws
    aperture, ISO and shutter speed is the key to the background out of focus.
    exposing your images correctly. Master this
    and you will get great results from any
    camera. f/1.8 f/5.6 f/8 f/11 f/16 f/22
    Learn to use your histogram to judge your
    exposure. In most cases, the histogram
    should look like a bell - roughly the same as
    the histogram in this image.

    Color
    Wider apertures will Narrow apertures will
    Make sure you are give you a blurred make everything
    shooting in raw. This file
    type captures a lot more background sharper
    information than jpegs
    and allows you more
    leeway in post
    production.
    This means you will be able to control the
    ISO
    exact outcome in terms of colour as well as The higher the ISO, the brighter the image, but also more noise will
    having a little more room to move on be in your photos. Usually you want to minimise noise so keep ISO
    improving the exposure when you don't down as much as possible.
    quite get it right in the camera.

    Composition Low ISO High ISO

    The old chestnut is the


    Shutter Speed
    GNIKLATS
    rule of thirds. Pretend
    there is a grid across
    your scene (like a tic tac
    toe grid. Place the A slow shutter speed lets more light into the camera and also allows
    important elements of the sensor to record movement in the frame.
    the photograph on the
    places where the grid lines intersect. This is
    THGIL

    an old guideline that will help you get more


    powerful compositions, but don't be too
    constrained by it. Rules were meant to be
    broken!

    The first image is dark and frozen. The last image is light and the
    clouds have motion blur.

    LIGHT STALKING

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