In this project we had to take the same picture using 5 different aperture lengths, more commonly know as the f/stop. The f/stop controls the depth of field of the picture as well as how much light your lens takes in.
These photos of the plant clearly shows how the depth of field changes depending on the f/stop. The lower number the f/stop the shallower of field you get. The higher number the f/stop the deeper the field.
These pictures also demonstrates the change in depth of field. As you can tell the lower number f/stop has a blurrier background whereas the higher number f/stop has a clear background.
These photos show the other importance of your f/stop. Not only does the f/stop control the depth of field in you images it also controls how much light your camera takes in. Without changing anything but the aperture you can see the the lower number f/stop let’s in a lot of light. The higher the f/stop number the less light you lens gets.
This is another example of the f/stop controlling how bright or dark your image is. That’s why you’ve got to fully understand all the parts that go into making a photo or else it might be too bright where you can’t see anything or too dark having the same negative effect.
In these images I try to capture both things the f/stop controls. You can tell how the lighting changes through the photos as well as the depth of field.