Camera Basics - Getting to know your Camera
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Before You Start

What you will need to take this course.
How to properly hold your camera
How to set aperture priority - Canon
How to set aperture priority mode - Nikon
How to set aperture priority mode - Sony
Aperture

Aperture Lesson Overview
What is the aperture of a camera?
Big is small and small is big.
Picture Time!
ƒ 5.6 - Eyes Wide Open

Poppies - What ƒ/5.6 or a wide open aperture does for an image.
Red Rose - Aperture 5.6 - Isolating a subject with background blur
Too Busy - Aperture 5.6 -objects that are the same distance away from the camera lens.
Aperture 5.6 - Assignment
Depth of field and aperture value ƒ/5.6 revisited
ƒ/8 - Great Starting Point for Beginners

Stopping down to ƒ/8
Bringing your whole subject into focus
ƒ/8 and ƒ/11 are good midrange apertures and a great place to start.
ƒ/8 - sometimes referred to as the "Who cares" aperture.
ƒ/8 Assignment - practicing what we have learned
ƒ/22 - Small aperture with a deep depth of field.

Stop. Stop. Stop.
ƒ/22 Everything from front to back in sharp focus
Focus .. Focus ...
Depth of field

Depth of Field
Depth of field revisited - A quick overview of depth of field
Depth of field Chart
Review your pictures!
Aperture exit questionaire
ISO

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ISO - A not so precise description.
The Exposure Triangle - putting it all together

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To dark or not too dark?
Don't look into the .. oh never mind.

Aperture Lesson Overview

In this section, we will cover

The aperture of a camera
Aperture priority mode
Depth of field