Learn how to use the exposure triangle in under 15 minutes to master manual exposure settings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ต.ค. 2022
- You could also think as this as a beginners guide or exposure for dummies!
in this video today I’m going to explain exposure or what people have started to refer to as the exposure triangle. if you’e looked down at your camera and seen a bunch of numbers and didn’t really know what they were, then this video today will explain what how all of those numbers work together to create a photo that isn’t too bright or to dark and how each of them affect your photos.
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Rough transcript:
Welcome everyone This video is also for you if you know generally what the numbers are but don’t really understand how they impact your images. If you’re new to this channel please take a moment to like and subscribe and if you’’ve been here before and noticed I am talking little slower than normall, its because I want people to fully grasp the information. I learned about exposure during my first photography class in high school and my teacher Greg Wall Stevens, who had a huge impact on my life, taught exposure in fairly simple terms and I’m gonna share that with you today. There are three main things that we can adjust on out camera that affect the output of our images. Those three things are the aperture or f-stop the shutter speed, and the ISO. Your goal is to have all three of these things in balance to get a proper exposure. Instead of using the word balance, let’s use the word equal and that’s where the symbolism of the equilateral triangle comes in. But don’t worry about that so much right now, it will make more sense a little later. First I’m going to talk about what each of these 3 inputs is and how it affects the picture then I’m gonna talk about how you keep all three of them in balance and then you’ll understand at the end of this video how to properly expose your picture and how to make the right choices in order to get the image that you’re looking for.You’ll see these numbers when shooting in automatic modes, but you can start to change them and make smart decisions in aputure priority, shutter priority and manual for the M Setting. You might be able to set the ISO in any mode but more on ISO later. One thing to also keep in mind is that fully mechanical film cameras had a standard set of numbers for each of the settings and as technology changed you were able to make finer adjustments to the settings. But all the settings on modern cameras are still based on these old standard settings and numbers in-between. These standard numbers are referred to as full or whole or stops sometimes, but this will make more sense as we go. F-stops: F-stops, often referred to as aperture, is the diameter of the opening of the back of your lens that lets the light pass through. These numbers dont appear to increase logically and that is because they represent the denominator in a fraction that describes the size of the opening.. A smaller f-number is a big opening that lets in more light, and a larger number is a small opening that lets in less light. Full f-stops in order from effectively brightest to darkest where each number left to right halves the volume of light passing through are 1.4, 2, 2.8 4, 5.6, 8, 11,16, 22. When you physically turned a ring on old lens to change the aperture is physically stopped or clicked at these numbers. Your camera will likely will let you adjust these numbers in 1/3 or 1/2 stop increments and some lenses can have f-stops that are smaller or larger than these numbers. Because of physics, the size of the opening changes how much of your image is in focus from the front to the back. This is knows as depth of field. A large opening, or small number will result in very little in focus, other than what’s you’re focused on. This is a very popular choice for outdoor portrait photography. So for instance if you shoot a at portrait at f2 with the lens focused on the persons face, everything else will be blurry and the blurry blobs in the background are referred to as the bokeh.
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I decided I'd start photography after a lifetime of wanting to get into it, but never committing. After having taken 3 online courses on it, I've learned more by watching this video than in all three of those courses combined. You made it easy to understand, you gave definations of terms without me having to pause the video to go look things up, and you used a nice, steady pace. Thank you for making this video - you have a new subscriber.
Wow thank you so much and enjoy your journey!
I hope you’re ready to spend some money. Idk how serious you’re going to take it but you’ll never stop spending money depending on what level of photography you choose to strive for. Whenever you think you know photography, you realize you have no idea. It’s something you have to love like athletes love sports. Again all this is based on what level you choose to pursue. Best of luck to you. 🙏🏾😎
I was familiar with this around 2 decades back and forgot it since using point & click phone camera. I'm returning to dedicated cameras. I'm a visual learner and this was the best and most easy to digest explanation of the shutter speed, aperture and ISO ... thank you, this is much appreciated.
Thank you so much. That is great to hear and good luck with your journey!
Excellent explanation!
Thanks! Glad it was helpful!
terrific explanation!
Thank you so much!
Awesomeness! Thank you!
You're very welcome!
From a practical point of view and as a start spot on... however I tend to point out from the beginning that this is only 100% correct in analog photography and that in digital ISO doesn’t really exist, however for practical reasons of continuity the digital ISO settings are configured to mimic the analog equivalent; finally I point out the differences between film grain and digital noise. I only go deeper for those interested and when introducing noise reduction techniques.
As much as I understand the need to simplify concepts for ease of comprehension, a pet peeve of mine is to never mislead, if I use a simplified concept I point it out, I say that there’s more to it, otherwise further down the line it might be difficult to understand what’s happening and/or making wrong decisions.
Thank you 😊
You're welcome 😊
One nice thing about the growing popularity of film photography using used, typically antique cameras among younger folks, is that they’re getting to learn this by doing. You might point out that on a fully manual lens with a leaf shutter inside it, the shutter speed and aperture form a parallel row of numbers exactly like the chart your high school teacher had. You can turn both dials together, and any combination of the two you select will remain the same exposure. Makes the area of the aperture half the size, and only half the light can come in, so you need to expose for twice the time. Honestly, I would hope anyone who watches a channel as advanced as your would already know all of this. 😂
Thanks Bob! I never used a medium format camera so I didn’t know that. What a genius design. By the looks of the low view count, I think making a video on something so basic was a bad idea. Oh well I still get a lot of question where the people just don’t get these basic fundamentals. 🤷🏻♂️
so...... just as a good indicator ... I was about tp purchase a course on Exposure Triangle - and on this gentlemans video - at 03.33 - Ive learned something new .. immediately .. and John didnt need some hyped up intro trailer - (Im really starting to hate those things on every video) .. ok .. Im at 03.36 Ill proceeed to learn.. now.. click...
Thanks. I hope it helps.
Do u have one fr video?
Set the shutter speed to double the frame rate and then adjust the other settings. If you have to, you can shoot at the frame rate or 4x the frame rate, but it’s not ideal.
@@JohnGress thanks
When did the exposure triangle become a fad? I don’t read Ansel Adams write about the exposure triangle.
For what its worth, I didn’t learn it as a triangle and I only heard people use that term after TH-cam.
While that's true, Ansel was still using it in practice. It's just a teaching tool to illustrate the relationship between the three variables.
As a memory tool, a triangle is a pretty good device. As a functional expression of how these elements relate to each other to create proper exposure - it doesn’t work. Go ahead - label each leg with specific values - ISOs, f-Stops and shutter speeds - then try to make it work. It really doesn’t.
Still lost
mastering the exposure triangle will help you take control of your camera. It won't necessarily make you a better photographer though. That's up to you.