Great explanation Gary, been a amateur photographer for many years now and you have just opened my eyes and knowledge to the science of F-stops. Thanks again
Hi Gary. Thanks for another great video. To make a non-aperture related comment, I was thinking about you yesterday as I was huffing and puffing up a hill to get into position. Your, “Don’t be a lazy photographer,” kept running through my head. Good luck with your photography in 2020.
I first saw you doing an excellent interview of Mike Browne whom I subscribe to and find to be a talented mentor and teacher. I checked out your TH-cam channel and after watching just a few videos I was so impressed by your knowledge and teaching style that I subscribed to your channel also. I took up photography at age 70 and I am having a blast. I have some catching up to do with your channel but rest assured that I will be gleaning as much information and inspiration as I can absorb. This was a super video for us amateur's. Wishing you and your family an outstanding 2022. God bless.
Thanks Gary, this is an eye opener and filled in a black hole that I didn’t know I had about depth of field. Since the beginning of time I’ve looked at my lens, observed that the numbers are closer together at distant focus and further apart for close focus. Then coupled with the F Stop scale I could guesstimate what could be in focus. The concept of changing the distance between the camera then correcting the focal length to get the same image size is a way of manipulating depth of field I’ve never thought about Well done, you made us think👍
I needed to learn this. Photography courses in my country is a bit expensive and far from where I live, so learning about aperture on youtube for free, is a huge help. Thank you very much.
Agree, very informative for beginners and intermediate photographers like myself, I appreciate you taking the time to put the video together! I enjoyed watching and learning!
Gary your so good at explaining/simplifying the technical parts of photography I'm like others who have left comments I thought I had it right , the second part of the video I do regarding the sweet spot with my landscape photography but hey you learn something something every day thanks for that upload looking forward to your next,.
Great informative video Gary. I knew bits but your explanation of camera distance away from the subject wasn't something I had necessarily thought much about. Really clear...thanks for the tutorial.
You are a life saver Gary! I've been asked to teach a few kids photography when school restarts in a couple of weeks and I've been going around in circles trying to think how I can explain everything without either boring them or confusing them. I'm not a trained teacher and despite having been taking photos for around 30 years now, I do so much by instinct now I've been worried about missing stuff out. This video has just become part of my lesson plan :)
very well explained Gary...when doing portraits I prefer the very shallow DOF...love the dreamy out of focus quality and the bokeh...and when trying for those wonderful landscapes the 11 spot seems to work the best for me with an occasional 16...
Marvellous video Not really seen anyone explain it this way before. Now I’m getting to understand what I do wrong for the results I’m after. With the old film, there was no record to how I got results. Time between taking photos could be weeks till I got the results back. The A.I. is brilliant in the modern cameras as the only mechanical change we can make is shutter and aperture And all the metadata that can be reviewed Cheers
Yes that is right. I purchased a Nikon Z6 with the 24-70 f4 lens. I shared a photo on line and someone said they where impressed with the depth a field that the kit lens had, and they where having second thoughts about getting the 24-70 f2.8. They don't know about this part of taking photo's. I was close to what I was shooting, zoomed in with miles of land in the back ground.
So true! I cringe when I hear photographers mention the use of a long lens to compress the scene. I have been shooting since the early 1970's, and i have never seen a long lens compress anything. All it does is reduce the angle of view, effectively "magnifying" a portion of the scene. But true magnification is a result of the camera-to-subject distance in relation to the angle of view. This is why macro lenses allow for better magnification, regardless of focal length, as they allow the camera to be closer to the subject, thereby changing the perspective. Long lenses simply allow the photographer to alter the perspective by moving farther away from the subject, thereby reducing the relative distance from camera to far away subjects, giving the illusion of compression of the foreground. In reality, only the perspective has changed, and the eye is fooled.
Gary thankyou for the video help a lot .thankyou for explaining .i new about getting in close at say 2.8 or 3.5 but not the affect of moving the camera away... big help i will remember that next time.
getting head around small number big hole, big number small hole... I was taught that F2.8 is equal to 2 fence posts in focus, F7 is seven posts, etc etc - is a great mental image to deal with depth of field. great video!!
Yep that's a fair bit of advice. The DOF of the fence posts will change greatly though depending on how close or far away from them you are. F2.8 for instance shot at 20' away and most of the fence posts will be in focus. Hope this makes sense :)
Thanks Garry, nice video. I've seen quite a few videos about aperture but not many talk about the affect of the distance of camera to subject, every days a school day. Cheers Garry, I look forward to your next video.
Always good to watch someone else explaining D.O.F. Teaching Aperture and D.O.F are the subjects where I’ve seen students glaze over and you know you’re gonna have to slow down and get them hooked again, or lose them completely. I’ve always broken the subject down into aperture’s effect on D.O.F, then done table top exercises using just that concept, then a break for a cuppa, then going on to Distance from subject & Focal lengths effect on D.O.F. I’m definitely going to use your two photo anomaly trick at the start of the 2nd D.O.F session from now on - it’ll cause a bit of head-scratching, but will link nicely to a set of images I have.
Thanks Gary, was just going to skip it as thought I knew it but glad you put that example in at the beginning to keep me engaged. Lesson learnt, though may just watch it again to confirm it went into my old noggin.
Hi Garry,, I did get f16 wrong. Having watched the whole video I found it most interesting and helpful, especially about what makes one stop of difference. After trying a few tings on my camera I know I will watch it all over again just to prove to myself I got it right. Thanks again Ken
I kneeled for that explanation. I am not a beginner, I have already taken really good photos. But you have a gift: to explain complicated things easily. Thank you! You helped me a little further.
I never knew this information...I shoot landscape and used to always. Pump it up. To F22. Learned something. Thank you Gary! I am subscribed now for sure.
Great refresher video. It’s been ages since I received my photography certification and this video with your brilliant teaching style have given me quite a bit of encouragement. Thank you so much for this!
Great explanation Gary, precisely why you can still get a shallow depth of field with M43rds. In fact it’s possible with a smart phone if you get close enough.
Nice overview. This is why I like my old vintage lens, they have a colored depth of field scale marked off on the lens body. It was nice, because I could just put infinity at the mark for f22 and see how wide my depth of field would go nearest to me in landscapes. My old vintage zoom has the depth of scale lines spread out a lot wider at 70mm and very narrow at 200mm.
Nice one Gary! Thankfully I learned all this stuff years ago but what a great video for newcomers and the bewildered,,,, excellent work as usual, thanks, Bob.
Thank you v much Gary I'm 2 years in on my photography learning journey. I felt I was beginning to get to grips with this aspect at last having tried lots of things, but this video has really helped things click for me and understand far better what I'm doing (or should be doing) with my aperture settings - v clearly explained.
Had hand surgery today. Thought I could do this before the surgery. Afraid photography on hold for several months. kindly keep sending me the tutorials so I can do the when healed. Thank you. Sandy
Great way to start your vlog Gary with the quiz really enjoyed that and I got 1 out 3 correct , so I'm sticking around to watch the rest ;). Really good explanation about moving those feet.
Nice one Gary very well explained. Can you do a vlog out doors landscape where to focus when you got foreground mid ground and background please without focus stacking. Thankyou.
Thank you Gary, It's good to refresh the science since I have the tendency to forget occasionally and I like those old Corgi's, I use to collect them in the 1960's I just wish I still had them.
Hi Gary thanx for sharing the information in the tutorial it makes so much sense now how apertures work I had no idea about the anomaly I just blamed my camera I'm going to apologise to it now lol best wishes.
65 in a couple of weeks, understand and learnt a huge amount from your videos in the last few days, clear and concise many thanks
Thank you for the simple but informative tutorial, please keep them coming!
Out of all the videos i watched on aperature, this is the best. I had a "light bulb" moment watching this, i now understand. Thank you sir!
Just what I needed. Thanks for making this. Read and watched lots of other info but not fully understood and this was clear, nailed it.
Great explanation Gary, been a amateur photographer for many years now and you have just opened my eyes and knowledge to the science of F-stops. Thanks again
Happy to help cheers David 👍
Very well explained Gary I love your videos mate well done and keep them coming!!
Great video. I learnt so much in this video that I didn't learn watching many other videos. Thanks a lot
absolutely brilliant!
thanks for explaining some long-observed point so lucidly.
Hi Gary. Thanks for another great video. To make a non-aperture related comment, I was thinking about you yesterday as I was huffing and puffing up a hill to get into position. Your, “Don’t be a lazy photographer,” kept running through my head. Good luck with your photography in 2020.
Aquario Amico - lol huffing and puffing 😁😁 sounds like you were trying to emulate me 😁😁 All the best to you too 👍🏻👍🏻
Simply brilliant, I came late to your channel, was impressed and subscribed. Thumbs up
Very well explained thank you. Only just found your channel and have learnt loads. Thank you. 👍🏻
Glad to help
Thank you fore the video this way I din't see it before. So agian thank you new focus. I will look the video agian to learn more of it.
One of the best photography videos I've ever seen. The examples at the beginning were incredible! Well done Gary!
I first saw you doing an excellent interview of Mike Browne whom I subscribe to and find to be a talented mentor and teacher. I checked out your TH-cam channel and after watching just a few videos I was so impressed by your knowledge and teaching style that I subscribed to your channel also. I took up photography at age 70 and I am having a blast. I have some catching up to do with your channel but rest assured that I will be gleaning as much information and inspiration as I can absorb. This was a super video for us amateur's. Wishing you and your family an outstanding 2022. God bless.
Hell of a Teacher. Superb video. 👌👌
Very kind, thank you
Very well explained Gary, thank you very much.
What a clear and informative explanation.
Thank you Wendy
Thanks Gary for a brilliant & easy to understand video on the guide to aperture settings.
That cleared quite a few things that had always puzzled me, thanks a lot Gary!
Cheers Edi
Helped reinforce my knowledge of aperture. Thanks.
Cheers Ralph
Huh........game changer for me Gary. I love videos like this. Now to go practice.
very informative, and great approach for explaining things!
new to photography your video help me, thanks I will keep tuning in thanks
Amazing, best of the best video show! Such Complexity within simplicity and thank you very-very much Sir. Excellent....
Thanks Gary, this is an eye opener and filled in a black hole that I didn’t know I had about depth of field. Since the beginning of time I’ve looked at my lens, observed that the numbers are closer together at distant focus and further apart for close focus. Then coupled with the F Stop scale I could guesstimate what could be in focus.
The concept of changing the distance between the camera then correcting the focal length to get the same image size is a way of manipulating depth of field I’ve never thought about
Well done, you made us think👍
Always enjoy your video's Gary...and thanks for sharing your knowledge with us....
Cheers Vincent
Fantastic!!!!! Subscribed and hit the notification bell! :)
Thank you Matt
I needed to learn this. Photography courses in my country is a bit expensive and far from where I live, so learning about aperture on youtube for free, is a huge help. Thank you very much.
Great tutorial! You are a fantastic teacher...:)
Great vlog the log Gary. Loved every minute.
Thank you Paul
Thanks for the clarity , really enjoy your delivery technique.Many thanks Gary.
Agree, very informative for beginners and intermediate photographers like myself, I appreciate you taking the time to put the video together! I enjoyed watching and learning!
Eric Esen thank you Eric 👍🏻👍🏻
It was a great help in understanding aperture, still new to it all
Great video with plenty informations. Thank you Gary !
Cheers Alex
Great tutorial from a great teacher
A great refresher, from doing your course in the studio. Thanks Gary
Lee Thornton Cheers Lee
Hi Gary, loved the video and a nice explanation. Great way of saying Hyperfocal distance without saying Hyperfocal distace.
Gary your so good at explaining/simplifying the technical parts of photography I'm like others who have left comments I thought I had it right , the second part of the video I do regarding the sweet spot with my landscape photography but hey you learn something something every day thanks for that upload looking forward to your next,.
Thank you for saying Jeff 👍👍
Great informative video Gary. I knew bits but your explanation of camera distance away from the subject wasn't something I had necessarily thought much about. Really clear...thanks for the tutorial.
Wow! such an outstanding method of teaching
Yes, focus point distance from the camera! Nice video Gary, thanks for posting.
Tony Pierce cheers Tony
You are a life saver Gary! I've been asked to teach a few kids photography when school restarts in a couple of weeks and I've been going around in circles trying to think how I can explain everything without either boring them or confusing them. I'm not a trained teacher and despite having been taking photos for around 30 years now, I do so much by instinct now I've been worried about missing stuff out. This video has just become part of my lesson plan :)
Oh that's fantastic. Let me know how it went. 👍
Great information. Thanks a lot. Subscribed immediately :-)
very well explained Gary...when doing portraits I prefer the very shallow DOF...love the dreamy out of focus quality and the bokeh...and when trying for those wonderful landscapes the 11 spot seems to work the best for me with an occasional 16...
Awesome. A really great explanation although it is difficult but you made it simplified. Thanks Gary. Keep inspiring us. 😍👍
Marvellous video
Not really seen anyone explain it this way before. Now I’m getting to understand what I do wrong for the results I’m after.
With the old film, there was no record to how I got results. Time between taking photos could be weeks till I got the results back. The A.I. is brilliant in the modern cameras as the only mechanical change we can make is shutter and aperture
And all the metadata that can be reviewed
Cheers
great video, hope you do one on shutter speed and one on ISO next
So many just focus on aperture and do not remember that the distance from camera to subject also influences depth of field. Great video Gary!
John Hare cheers John 👍🏻
In fact at close distances subject to camera distance makes more difference to depth of field than aperture!
Yes that is right. I purchased a Nikon Z6 with the 24-70 f4 lens. I shared a photo on line and someone said they where impressed with the depth a field that the kit lens had, and they where having second thoughts about getting the 24-70 f2.8. They don't know about this part of taking photo's. I was close to what I was shooting, zoomed in with miles of land in the back ground.
So true! I cringe when I hear photographers mention the use of a long lens to compress the scene. I have been shooting since the early 1970's, and i have never seen a long lens compress anything. All it does is reduce the angle of view, effectively "magnifying" a portion of the scene. But true magnification is a result of the camera-to-subject distance in relation to the angle of view. This is why macro lenses allow for better magnification, regardless of focal length, as they allow the camera to be closer to the subject, thereby changing the perspective. Long lenses simply allow the photographer to alter the perspective by moving farther away from the subject, thereby reducing the relative distance from camera to far away subjects, giving the illusion of compression of the foreground. In reality, only the perspective has changed, and the eye is fooled.
They say you're never too old to learn something new. Thank you for a great explanation.
Good stuff Gary. You have a talent for describing things in a way anyone can understand. Down to earth, no nonsense. Great work as usual.
Gary thankyou for the video help a lot .thankyou for explaining .i new about getting in close at say 2.8 or 3.5 but not the affect of moving the camera away... big help i will remember that next time.
getting head around small number big hole, big number small hole... I was taught that F2.8 is equal to 2 fence posts in focus, F7 is seven posts, etc etc - is a great mental image to deal with depth of field. great video!!
Yep that's a fair bit of advice. The DOF of the fence posts will change greatly though depending on how close or far away from them you are. F2.8 for instance shot at 20' away and most of the fence posts will be in focus. Hope this makes sense :)
Thanks Garry, nice video. I've seen quite a few videos about aperture but not many talk about the affect of the distance of camera to subject, every days a school day.
Cheers Garry, I look forward to your next video.
Always good to watch someone else explaining D.O.F.
Teaching Aperture and D.O.F are the subjects where I’ve seen students glaze over and you know you’re gonna have to slow down and get them hooked again, or lose them completely.
I’ve always broken the subject down into aperture’s effect on D.O.F, then done table top exercises using just that concept, then a break for a cuppa, then going on to Distance from subject & Focal lengths effect on D.O.F.
I’m definitely going to use your two photo anomaly trick at the start of the 2nd D.O.F session from now on - it’ll cause a bit of head-scratching, but will link nicely to a set of images I have.
Thanks Gary, was just going to skip it as thought I knew it but glad you put that example in at the beginning to keep me engaged. Lesson learnt, though may just watch it again to confirm it went into my old noggin.
lol You're welcome. Glad it got the old grey matter working :)
Interesting and informative - thanks Gary!
Cheers Ron 👍
Hi Garry,, I did get f16 wrong. Having watched the whole video I found it most interesting and helpful, especially about what makes one stop of difference. After trying a few tings on my camera I know I will watch it all over again just to prove to myself I got it right. Thanks again Ken
I kneeled for that explanation. I am not a beginner, I have already taken really good photos. But you have a gift: to explain complicated things easily. Thank you! You helped me a little further.
Excellent tutorial well done.
I have that very same Aston Martin. Got it as a kid and I still have it. Shaken, not stirred.
Great video well explained it would be great as a novice to see wot effects on a landscape the aperture has thanks keep it up steve
Best video of aperture learning I’ve ever seen, well done mate and thank you, very informative 💯👊💯
Please check your first photo at the beginning, what you labeled as f16 was actually taken with a smaller f#, please revise
I got it know
Hi Gary. Very interesting video. I have learned something today cheers mate
You're welcome. Cheers
Very easy and understandable thanks
I never knew this information...I shoot landscape and used to always. Pump it up. To F22. Learned something. Thank you Gary!
I am subscribed now for sure.
Thank you
Excellent Gary thanks.
Very cool explanation. I’ll be sure to try for myself.
Always something new to learn from everybody. 😊
Great refresher video. It’s been ages since I received my photography certification and this video with your brilliant teaching style have given me quite a bit of encouragement. Thank you so much for this!
"May I be be excused from class now sir ! " What a brilliant explanation, wish I had that explanation when I was learning.Thanks Gary.
You may be excused Mrs Foulkes but please be back here next week :)
Great explanation Gary, precisely why you can still get a shallow depth of field with M43rds. In fact it’s possible with a smart phone if you get close enough.
Very true Andy. A lot of DOF is handled by software built into most cameras on smartphones. It's a cheat but the pricipals are the same :)
an integrated and elaborates program Very precisely
, thanks mr Gary
Brilliant explanation. Thanks Gary!
Very well explained, Gary. Another great tutorial from yours truly.
Well explained. Although I knew these things I still loved watching this vlog. Recommended.
Martin Agius cheers Martin
Nice overview. This is why I like my old vintage lens, they have a colored depth of field scale marked off on the lens body. It was nice, because I could just put infinity at the mark for f22 and see how wide my depth of field would go nearest to me in landscapes. My old vintage zoom has the depth of scale lines spread out a lot wider at 70mm and very narrow at 200mm.
Pete Gerardini - love those lenses. 👍🏻👍🏻
You are the best Gary!!!
Amazing tricks for me as an amateur,thanks.
You are a great teacher.
Excellent video Gary, thank you so much!
Nice one Gary! Thankfully I learned all this stuff years ago but what a great video for newcomers and the bewildered,,,, excellent work as usual, thanks, Bob.
It really took watching three time before it finally clicked. VERY helpful, sir. Thank you.
Donald Sims Glad it made sense in the end 😁😁
Learned something new! Thx Gary
You're welcome Patrick 👍
Thank you v much Gary I'm 2 years in on my photography learning journey. I felt I was beginning to get to grips with this aspect at last having tried lots of things, but this video has really helped things click for me and understand far better what I'm doing (or should be doing) with my aperture settings - v clearly explained.
Had hand surgery today. Thought I could do this before the surgery. Afraid photography on hold for several months. kindly keep sending me the tutorials so I can do the when healed. Thank you. Sandy
Oh nooo Hope you get better soon xx
Cheers Gary well explained. Simple but to the point.
Nick Bayliss - Cheers Nick 👍🏻👍🏻
Brilliantly explained, Gary! Another thing worth exploring in detail might be the illusive concept of hyperfocal distance.
It's on my list 👍👍
@@GaryGough Much looking forward to it!
Good video you explained the art of the aperture and DOF very well just have to remember this and all the rest before I push the shutter button
One word...Brilliant!
Cheers Brad
Clear and concise!
Great way to start your vlog Gary with the quiz really enjoyed that and I got 1 out 3 correct , so I'm sticking around to watch the rest ;). Really good explanation about moving those feet.
I work with macro and have a difficult focus of flowers. Now I will work with my 105 micro rather than the 40. Thanks!
Nice one Gary very well explained. Can you do a vlog out doors landscape where to focus when you got foreground mid ground and background please without focus stacking. Thankyou.
It's on the list, cheers John
Nice simple explanation!
gary beaumont cheers Gary. I’ll explain again to you next week when I see you 😁😁
Best one!
Thanks, Gary!
You're welcome, thank you
Just need a few days rest and I will. I loved the tutorial.
Thank you Sandy xx
Top bloke. Very useful information. I shoot at f8 and f11 on my nikon d3300
Cheers Rich
Thanks a million. So helpful
Thank you Gary, It's good to refresh the science since I have the tendency to forget occasionally and I like those old Corgi's, I use to collect them in the 1960's I just wish I still had them.
Cheers Rich. I've got a sizeable collection of orginal corgis. All boxed too. They cost a fortune these days :(
Hi Gary thanx for sharing the information in the tutorial it makes so much sense now how apertures work I had no idea about the anomaly I just blamed my camera I'm going to apologise to it now lol best wishes.
lol Cheers Mark
thank you for this video that helps a lot