Trust me... I've seen more or less every f***ing video on camera basics and ALWAYS thinking why is so damn hard to show and explain not only the theory and at the same time, show what's happening with the lens, the field of view, the depth of field, etc UNTIL I saw your video but more specifically things like 1:09 or 2:58 and I thought... FINALLY! Amazing video. I knew it already but was a pleasure to finally see a good damn job on the matter. I saw it because I really enjoy something when is damn well explained. Thanks a lot.
This has always confused me. Thank you for the explanation, it was so clear and simple, and the graphics were amazing. Photography is so technical and I love it.
@@ricban1950 yeah, produced by shutter.... in case you are not using silent mode, and willing to accept lower quality results from digital shuter speed visible especialy in continous mode :-)
I know nothing about photography except that I love the idea of one day being good at it. I've looked at soo many guides and explanation videos and books and I swear they all expect me to already know the basics: 'To get that good aperture, make sure you....' 'What even is aperture?' This video is the only one to actually explain it. THANKS :>
Yes, this video serves as a foundation for many. I am glad it was helpful to you and I hope you enjoy photography as much as I do. Thanks for watching and for the kind feedback, Cheers!
Thank you. Spending the entire video on only one aspect has helped me understand immensely. It was also very useful to learn with the visual instead of looking at a person explain it.
this video is awesome. it's entertaining and informative. i always ask myself to research about aperture and felt lazy and busy to do so. then this came as a recommended video in my TH-cam homepage and it's gold! thanks man! you're doing great work.
I'm doing a piece of coursework on photography and maths and trust me when I say I've read about 15 different definitions for aperture and focal length and have looked at at least 50 different websites on photography. They all say they're going over the basics but it's so complex the way they explain it. This is the best video I have come across and it is so clear and HELPFUL so THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
The making of this vid itself demands a big deal of appreciation from the learners for its creativity. Such a point to its detail... one of the very best learning tools video on photography that i have come across.
Well explained. I have been looking at my ZS100 manual and I don't understand a thing. I am a noob in this field and just starting. This video explained what I need to do as a starting point.
Perfect presentation, I was completely ignorant about these concepts beforehand (now less so). As I watched, I thought "this video must be in the millions of views", and sure it is!
Great summary! Only one tiny correction, in case of human eye, when you pointed at the white part, it's called sclera. Cornea is the glassy, transparent part directly in front of iris. In a way, the camera lens' glass is cornea.
ok im not gonna lie....i understood this better than other explanations and I was looking for a better understanding on the F part of the lenses. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! Im also a visual learner
Aperture Laboratories, otherwise known as Aperture Science, or simply Aperture, is a top-secret organization located in an abandoned salt mine in Michigan. The company's last known CEO, Cave Johnson, started the business by providing shower curtains for the U.S. Army. At that time, the company went under the name "Aperture Fixtures", before diversifying their assets into experimental research. It was later found that the government-funded agency Black Mesa acquired various patents from Aperture regarding portable, controlled wormhole-generating technology. Officially, Caroline [REDACTED], Johnson's secretary, is the current CEO of the company, but her whereabouts still remain unknown.
I can’t express my feelings for this video. It was amazing yet interesting. I didn’t have to listen a person talk and talk before getting to the point. Thank you so much for all of the useful information!
Thank you for the comment and I am glad you liked my video. Your feedback about getting "straight to the point" was exactly what I hoped to achieve in this video. Too often I see photography videos that are too winded with hosts that carry on about nothing. My channel aims to solve this by giving the viewer unbiased information in a clear and concise manner, with no "fluff" attached. When someone clicks on the video, they expect to be educated, and I want to provide them with direct information.
i was stuck 4 long i hv watched lot of videos didn't get even small amount of it ... but u made it so easy tnx for this ill watch all ur videos .. happy that u gave all these free.. tnx
My videos will always be free, don't worry. I believe learning the fundamentals should be accessible to everyone. Thank you for watching and I hope you enjoy photography. Let me know if you have any other questions; just drop some comments and I will make sure to respond.
You have hands down the best camera basics tutorials on TH-cam!!!!!! You have boiled down otherwise complex subjects to extremely easy to understand short videos. Wish I had found you earlier!!! I already liked and subscribed on the last video.
Just did a one hour lesson on shaw academy on aperture and was left so confused. Watched this video and 2 minutes into it I already understood aperture and was able to apply my knowledge 🤦🏻♀️ THANK YOU
Thank you very much, to you too! Thanks for watching and good luck in your photography. Let me know if you have any questions and feel free to reach out.
This is exactly what I was looking for! Perfect explanation. Thank you so much for sharing this. I'm definitely subbing so that I can follow your other tutorials.
Thanks for all the support and viewership on this video. It has really encouraged me to pump out more animations and one on focal length is in the works along with animations on ISO and Shutter Speed. I decided to monetize my videos. It was a hard choice as I would love to provide ad-free videos that everyone could enjoy, but if I am going to produce more animations, I will need money for the voiceovers which can cost a pretty penny, and licencing fees for some of the sound effects and music. I hope everyone understands why I am making this choice. Thanks again for all the positive feedback and support.
2:03 Max aperture F-stop 2:50 2 types of lenses (1) 2:55 Prime - fixed focal length (2) 3:02 zoom 3:093:12 focal length increase, max aperture decrease (increase F number) 3:57 Benefits of fast lens 4:03 fast lens can increase shutter speed
Just bought my first DSLR, i know i am a bit late but i still want to thank you for this amazing video, it helped me understand basically everything even if you only explained one thing. Keep it up.
Thanks for the feedback! I am happy my video could be of help for you, and I hope you continue to learn and enjoy photography. Let me know if you have any questions or any video suggestions.
I like this video a lot, but don't teach people that walking closer to a subject is zooming. 3:02 There is a different besides changing the distance and changing the vocal length (compression)
This video is amazing !! The one dislike the video is think they are smart enough and they ‘ll never be improved , because they never respect other !! T
Haha. I think everyone needs a refresher of the basics, sometimes. I actually created this channel because I wanted to refine my own photography skills and help people along the way, so even though I thought I "knew everything," I learned so much making these videos.
I just came across your channel and want to thank you for this! I have spent $ for private lessons and have not learned as much as I have from your channel. It's very encouraging and I really appreciate you taking time to help others!
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Just got a new mirrorless cam and I don't know how the basics work. Until I found your channel. This is so informative and really helpful for an amateur like me. Easy to understand. More videos please.
I've always found better to think about "exposure time" rather than "shutter speed", since i'm not interested in how fast the diaphragm is opening and shutting. Instead i'm more interested in how much time i'm letting light in through the aperture. But as a lot of people have said, it's really great having infographics and instructions at the same time. great video
Thanks! I agree "exposure time" is a better way to reference the concept of shutter speed, since it's less confusing than saying a fast/short/long/slow shutter speed which can be a bit confusing (is the shutter curtain moving fast, is short duration fast/slow?).
@@Kessekom well, "film look" as we understand in in this internet and DSLR days 😅 is supposed to use shallow depth of field, so the background is in focus and your subject in focus. You achieve that with a fast lens, using a small f-number. So with a 1.8 lens would be easier to blur the background than using 5.6 aperture. Between 2.8 and 3.0 you won't notice any difference in depth of field.
A couple things. First, you are correct. Smaller f-numbers will produce a shallower depth of field which is ideal if you want to achieve a very standard look (i.e. what smartphones are trying to reproduce with fake bokeh; there is a reason they are doing it - people want it). One thing you should be aware of though, smaller aperture =/= smaller f-number; the relationship is inverse, meaning that larger apertures, which correspond with larger lens openings, are coupled to smaller f-number values. For example, f1.8 is going to have a larger diaphragm opening in the lens than a setting of f8. It's just semantics but it IS important to understand so you do not get confused nor confuse others. Thank you all for commenting and watching the video. I really like responding to people's questions; it keeps me engaged and motivated to create new videos. Take care, everyone.
Smaller apertures …. such as f/5.6, f/8 or f/11 give a more ‘generous’ depth of field (more in focus, less chance of missing focus. Nothing “better” about that. I am not keep on bokeh, but nothing “better” about that.
Yes. Some new Samsung phones have a dual-aperture setting that allows them to "stop down" from f1.5 to f2.4. I did some research and the whole implementation wasn't much of a success so they are not including it on the most recent generation now.
Fixed. Sorry, there was a copyright issue with one of the music pieces in the video. I just decided to demonitize the video so that the audio could stay in.
OMG this is the best video I’ve ever watched. Well explained for the aperture,as a beginners for photography class. I’ve been watching many TH-cam videos and searching many information on google a lot to understand the aperture, shutter speed and ISO. This video is so far the best video, it allows me to understand how to start using my camera. Thank you so much for the video and subscribed!!!!!!! :)
Nice tutorial video, informative and clear. May I just point out a mistake or misleading information that mislead a lot of people about noise and the use of ISO. at 3:52 "reduce the amount of noise that your camera will produce if your ISO get bumped up". In most of the photograph the noise comes from the light itself, the one produced by the camera is negligible compare to the 'photon noise', the noise induced by the variation of arriving time of light from one pixel to an other. More light you have less the proportion of noise (compare to light) is important, in other word the Signal to Noise is higher. In fact, when increasing the ISO you decrease the referred noise produced by the camera, (when the noise is compared by to the photon noise). What change is the amount of light, usually lower at high ISO because the scene is dark or the shutter speed fast. So faster lens help you to makes cleaner image just because it gather more light not because one would use a lower ISO. cheers.
Hi there. "The lower the ISO the lower the noise you will have in your image". While I can understand what you want to mean, this is actually a false statement. Usually image taken with a low ISO have less noise (actually no, they have more Signal to Noise) because they have been taken with more light in, e.i. brighter scene or slower shutter speed. If you photograph the same scene with the same shutter speed, the same aperture but two different ISOs (taking care of not saturating any of the pic) you will end up with one picture darker than the other. But the quantity of noise will be sensibly the same in both picture, however slightly lower on the picture taken with the higher ISO. I know this is counter intuitive. Why that ? Because most of the noise on both picture are coming from the light itself. Changing the ISO does not change the efficiency of the detector to capture light. It is just changing a multiplicative factor (call gain) that happen at low level. Your post and video suggest that the noise is coming from the detector and this noise is higher when you increase the ISO. It is true that detector produce its own noise (their are several sources of this noise) but the main source of noise on a 99% of pictures is coming from the light itself: the so called photon noise or shot noise. If you allow the same quantity of light in your camera lowering the ISO will never decrease the noise (=increase the SNR). If you want to increase the SNR you need more light. You can have a look on this page : www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/RN_e.htm it will show you the "input referred read noise" function to ISO for most of the camera in the market. This detector noise is the one to compare to the photon noise and you can see that it is decreasing (after a certain point defined by the constructor) when ISO increase. An iPhone for instance has a detector with a read noise smaller than a DSLR (check on website above). But the detector and entrance pupil is globally much smaller on the iPhone and so capture much less light -> less SNR I am working on photon detection. If you ever need to make a video on that topic like the great one you made, I would be happy to help. cheers.
I liked your animation, but I have a few bugs that I would like to clear out. Please take this as positive criticism, as I believe you have done a great job and I just want your video to be better. 0:20 - In the eye animation the pupil is moving around the iris instead of the pupil and iris going around the eye simulating the movement of the eyeball. 0:25 - The animation is showing the SCLERA of the eye and calling it the CORNEA. The Cornea isn't the white part, but the transparent part that goes over the iris. 3:00 - The statement that a prime "can't zoom without moving" is misleading. Primes can't zoom at all. It should refer this as framing the shot. 3:05 - The animation doesn't show the difference of dolling and zooming. While dolling reframes the shot, zooming flattens it. If both actions did the same thing, you could not create a popular "vertigo" (or dolly zoom) effect in movies. 3:37 - The aperture "affecting" the ISO and shutter speed is a bit of an overstatement. I know what you mean, but I feel that is an oversimplification. You tried to explain it later, but it just made it more complicated with the ISO. Apart from that I really liked your animation. What I enjoyed the most was all the movement like zooming with the telephoto lens that makes the frame darker while moving the zoom ring on the animated lens itself and so on. How long did it take you to animate this whole thing?
Thanks for the constructive criticism. It takes me about a month to produce one of these animations, since it's just myself who does the script writing, illustrations, and animating. This animation took me about 30-40 hours to make, but once I refine my workflow from Adobe Illustrator to Adobe After Effects, I should be able to decrease the time it takes for me to release animations. Right now, I am working on one concerning focal length, and I have just finished the script and most of the illustrations.
I'm a visual learner and this was such a huge help for me understanding aperture! I've watched multiple videos but this one was the best, thank you!!
Totally agree!
Everyone is a visual learner because visuals help.
You are not a visual learner: th-cam.com/video/rhgwIhB58PA/w-d-xo.html
Went from amateur to less amateur in photography
Great to hear man!
Haha
I know pretty much everything now
*aperture* ba dum tsk
Oh me too😂
Trust me... I've seen more or less every f***ing video on camera basics and ALWAYS thinking why is so damn hard to show and explain not only the theory and at the same time, show what's happening with the lens, the field of view, the depth of field, etc UNTIL I saw your video but more specifically things like 1:09 or 2:58 and I thought... FINALLY!
Amazing video. I knew it already but was a pleasure to finally see a good damn job on the matter. I saw it because I really enjoy something when is damn well explained. Thanks a lot.
Thank you!
Finally, I found a 7 year old video that made it simple and plain to understand. Straight to the point! Thanks!!
This has always confused me. Thank you for the explanation, it was so clear and simple, and the graphics were amazing. Photography is so technical and I love it.
I watched about 20 videos on aperture back to back and this one helped the most. Thank you.
this video made me understand the aperture science logo after all these years
ISO, Check
Aperture, Check
Now onto Shutter speed!
These videos are great!
This video?
Apalapse's videos?
Who's "these" ?
Video or "Videos"?
@@playboybunny408 she’s been watching his channel, so she’s saying the videos on here are great
Thanks!
Not "Shutter speed". it is really "EXPOSURE TIME".
@@ricban1950 yeah, produced by shutter.... in case you are not using silent mode, and willing to accept lower quality results from digital shuter speed visible especialy in continous mode :-)
I know nothing about photography except that I love the idea of one day being good at it. I've looked at soo many guides and explanation videos and books and I swear they all expect me to already know the basics:
'To get that good aperture, make sure you....'
'What even is aperture?'
This video is the only one to actually explain it. THANKS :>
Yes, this video serves as a foundation for many. I am glad it was helpful to you and I hope you enjoy photography as much as I do. Thanks for watching and for the kind feedback, Cheers!
Thank you. Spending the entire video on only one aspect has helped me understand immensely. It was also very useful to learn with the visual instead of looking at a person explain it.
This is hands down the best explanation of Aperture I've ever seen! It's beautifully illustrated, interesting and NOT OVERLY COMPLICATED! KUDOS!!!
Thank you, Patrick. Your feedback really means a lot. I'm glad you liked the video.
I'm from Brazil and we can't find a content like that in portuguese, with all this excelente in animations. Thanks Very much!
Thank you sir, glad I can help!
this is perfect.
Thanks.
I've watched dozens of videos on photography.
This video helped me understand what all those video's were about!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am glad I could help! Thank you for watching and enjoying my content. Stay tuned for more coming soon.
Thank you. Not only did I learn where Aperture Laboratories got the logo from (I play too much Portal) but I learned some photography.
Good to hear!
I'm a newbie to photography and I learned alot just by watching this video. Thumbs up! 👍
Thanks, glad it helped!
This was a triumph. I'm making a note here. Huge success!
Aperture science! We do what we must, because, we can.
7 years after you made this and here I am. Thank you. This helped a lot
this video is awesome. it's entertaining and informative. i always ask myself to research about aperture and felt lazy and busy to do so. then this came as a recommended video in my TH-cam homepage and it's gold! thanks man! you're doing great work.
I'm doing a piece of coursework on photography and maths and trust me when I say I've read about 15 different definitions for aperture and focal length and have looked at at least 50 different websites on photography. They all say they're going over the basics but it's so complex the way they explain it. This is the best video I have come across and it is so clear and HELPFUL so THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
Thanks for the compliment, glad I could help :)
Um, this is SO SO helpful because you are explaining it with such clarity and thoroughness. This is a great resource to me know, thank you!
The making of this vid itself demands a big deal of appreciation from the learners for its creativity. Such a point to its detail... one of the very best learning tools video on photography that i have come across.
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. More to come as always!
Aperture Science
Fhagersson same XD only reason I clicked on this
Fhagersson Yes
We do what we must because we can
-aperature- weatley laboratories
🎵Im making some notes here: huge success.🎵
The best camera basic tutorial on the entire planet. I dare say that.
Well explained. I have been looking at my ZS100 manual and I don't understand a thing. I am a noob in this field and just starting. This video explained what I need to do as a starting point.
I'm glad it helped. Good luck with the ZS100!
Perfect presentation, I was completely ignorant about these concepts beforehand (now less so). As I watched, I thought "this video must be in the millions of views", and sure it is!
Excellent!!
The animation is clearly explaining how a camera works.. great job man!!
This is most to the point video explaining aperature basics ever.
Great summary! Only one tiny correction, in case of human eye, when you pointed at the white part, it's called sclera. Cornea is the glassy, transparent part directly in front of iris. In a way, the camera lens' glass is cornea.
Come on asian
@@ski.7 Be respectful!
@@mercynails1503 brother I too am asian🤣
ok im not gonna lie....i understood this better than other explanations and I was looking for a better understanding on the F part of the lenses. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! Im also a visual learner
Aperture Laboratories, otherwise known as Aperture Science, or simply Aperture, is a top-secret organization located in an abandoned salt mine in Michigan. The company's last known CEO, Cave Johnson, started the business by providing shower curtains for the U.S. Army. At that time, the company went under the name "Aperture Fixtures", before diversifying their assets into experimental research. It was later found that the government-funded agency Black Mesa acquired various patents from Aperture regarding portable, controlled wormhole-generating technology. Officially, Caroline [REDACTED], Johnson's secretary, is the current CEO of the company, but her whereabouts still remain unknown.
TheSola10 We need more portal related things on this video
Scp?
@@cammac66 what?
This is the most comprehensive video I've seen. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really like your video, you made it very easy to understand! I hope you'll do more videos about photography!
I release new videos every month so stay tuned!
That is really great work. Thank you for taking the time to create and share these videos. Subscribed!!!
Rita I agree!!
I can’t express my feelings for this video. It was amazing yet interesting.
I didn’t have to listen a person talk and talk before getting to the point.
Thank you so much for all of the useful information!
Thank you for the comment and I am glad you liked my video. Your feedback about getting "straight to the point" was exactly what I hoped to achieve in this video. Too often I see photography videos that are too winded with hosts that carry on about nothing. My channel aims to solve this by giving the viewer unbiased information in a clear and concise manner, with no "fluff" attached. When someone clicks on the video, they expect to be educated, and I want to provide them with direct information.
So simple to understand!
Crystal Clear Explanation..
Thanks!
i was stuck 4 long i hv watched lot of videos didn't get even small amount of it ... but u made it so easy tnx for this ill watch all ur videos .. happy that u gave all these free.. tnx
My videos will always be free, don't worry. I believe learning the fundamentals should be accessible to everyone. Thank you for watching and I hope you enjoy photography. Let me know if you have any other questions; just drop some comments and I will make sure to respond.
You have hands down the best camera basics tutorials on TH-cam!!!!!! You have boiled down otherwise complex subjects to extremely easy to understand short videos. Wish I had found you earlier!!! I already liked and subscribed on the last video.
Thanks so much!
Just did a one hour lesson on shaw academy on aperture and was left so confused. Watched this video and 2 minutes into it I already understood aperture and was able to apply my knowledge 🤦🏻♀️ THANK YOU
Glad to hear!
This video is fantastic. Thank you for conveying such clear and concise information.
You're very welcome!
after spending so much time on this concept, I have now understand this and all thanks to you. May God bless you with wealth and health.
Thank you very much, to you too! Thanks for watching and good luck in your photography. Let me know if you have any questions and feel free to reach out.
Excellent, very easy and simple. Your explanations are excellent. Do you have a list of topic you intend to cover?
Glad you enjoyed it! My next video will be about ISO, and I'll round out the three pillars of photography with shutter speed after that.
TH-cam needs people like you, Sir!
This is exactly what I was looking for! Perfect explanation. Thank you so much for sharing this. I'm definitely subbing so that I can follow your other tutorials.
Oh my god this explained everything. I rewatched it a few times and took notes. Awesome!
Oh my gosh this is so helpful why didn't I find this video earlier
5 years later still a very good video. Thank you!
Thanks for all the support and viewership on this video. It has really encouraged me to pump out more animations and one on focal length is in the works along with animations on ISO and Shutter Speed.
I decided to monetize my videos. It was a hard choice as I would love to provide ad-free videos that everyone could enjoy, but if I am going to produce more animations, I will need money for the voiceovers which can cost a pretty penny, and licencing fees for some of the sound effects and music. I hope everyone understands why I am making this choice. Thanks again for all the positive feedback and support.
Ads is no matter for me
Keep going bro
We are with y
Any way thanks for this video
I don't think you have to apologize for needing money to produce quality content. Monetize! :)
@Apalapse I am trying to create a presentation for work and was wondering how you created the aperture opening and closing animation
Subscribed! Thanks for the great work, I’ll pay attention to the ads, and visit the sponsors in support of your channel!
*Well here we are again*
*it’s always been such a pleasure*
Thank you so much for this video! It was really helpful, explained clearly and the visual were perfect! On to the ISO and Shutter speed videos now :)
This is exactly form i want to learn camera basics. Absolute beginner. This style of explaining is exctly what i need ❤❤❤❤
Happy to hear that!
2:03 Max aperture F-stop
2:50 2 types of lenses (1) 2:55 Prime - fixed focal length (2) 3:02 zoom 3:09 3:12 focal length increase, max aperture decrease (increase F number)
3:57 Benefits of fast lens 4:03 fast lens can increase shutter speed
Thanks for pointing that out!
Just bought my first DSLR, i know i am a bit late but i still want to thank you for this amazing video, it helped me understand basically everything even if you only explained one thing. Keep it up.
Thanks for the feedback! I am happy my video could be of help for you, and I hope you continue to learn and enjoy photography. Let me know if you have any questions or any video suggestions.
Great video. Are you writing, animating and doing the voice over yourself? If so, you are one very talented individual!
Everything but the voice over I do myself.
+Apalapse Did you use a comparized voice or did you use your own voice?
Making animation for tutorial is the hardest job ever😁
Salute!
Uma das melhoras animações explicativas sobre abertura do diafragma, muito dinâmico e didático, parabéns
This was such an informative and well laid out presentation on aperture. And the analogy made so much sense. Thank you!
I like this video a lot, but don't teach people that walking closer to a subject is zooming. 3:02 There is a different besides changing the distance and changing the vocal length (compression)
This video is amazing !! The one dislike the video is think they are smart enough and they ‘ll never be improved , because they never respect other !!
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Haha. I think everyone needs a refresher of the basics, sometimes. I actually created this channel because I wanted to refine my own photography skills and help people along the way, so even though I thought I "knew everything," I learned so much making these videos.
The white area is sclera not cornea . Iris gives colour to cornea which is transparent.
I just came across your channel and want to thank you for this! I have spent $ for private lessons and have not learned as much as I have from your channel. It's very encouraging and I really appreciate you taking time to help others!
Oh fuck so this is how aperture science logo comes from
Holy shit fam.. thanks :D
if u r talkin bout 'Portal' game.
Shrey Tiwari yea that's what I'm talking about, big fan of the series
They do what they must, because they can
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One of the best videos Ive ever seen. Clean and crisp
Thanks for the compliment!
Thank you! Very helpful information for a beginner like me!
Glad it helped!
Just got a new mirrorless cam and I don't know how the basics work. Until I found your channel. This is so informative and really helpful for an amateur like me. Easy to understand. More videos please.
You still have to adapt to your environment.
So that’s where Aperture science got its logo from
TrueProGamer Hell yea
I didn't know that the aperture was actually on a camera. I've only associated the word with Portal for a few months since I played it.
Cave Johnson must have a patent on all Lens Apertures
best video i have saw on this topic!! simply explained with no bs!! im 5 years late but well done
Brilliant wish I'd watched this yesterday!
This guy is the 3Blue1Brown of photography. Just superb. Thanks a lot men!
Thanks!
352 people use GoPro ;).
I have seen many videos but this one made it so easy and clear to understand it 🙏
👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks!
Hovering over the video and watching the 2 seconds taught me what it does. great video
Great to hear. Thanks for watching!
"This was a triumph... 🔷🔶
Thanks!
Nicely explained. Genuine content never gets old. 10/10🙌
I think we can put our differences behind us, for science, you monster.
I've always found better to think about "exposure time" rather than "shutter speed", since i'm not interested in how fast the diaphragm is opening and shutting. Instead i'm more interested in how much time i'm letting light in through the aperture. But as a lot of people have said, it's really great having infographics and instructions at the same time. great video
Thanks! I agree "exposure time" is a better way to reference the concept of shutter speed, since it's less confusing than saying a fast/short/long/slow shutter speed which can be a bit confusing (is the shutter curtain moving fast, is short duration fast/slow?).
For dummies, small aperture is better, example f2.8 > f3.0
@@Kessekom well, "film look" as we understand in in this internet and DSLR days 😅 is supposed to use shallow depth of field, so the background is in focus and your subject in focus. You achieve that with a fast lens, using a small f-number. So with a 1.8 lens would be easier to blur the background than using 5.6 aperture.
Between 2.8 and 3.0 you won't notice any difference in depth of field.
A couple things. First, you are correct. Smaller f-numbers will produce a shallower depth of field which is ideal if you want to achieve a very standard look (i.e. what smartphones are trying to reproduce with fake bokeh; there is a reason they are doing it - people want it). One thing you should be aware of though, smaller aperture =/= smaller f-number; the relationship is inverse, meaning that larger apertures, which correspond with larger lens openings, are coupled to smaller f-number values. For example, f1.8 is going to have a larger diaphragm opening in the lens than a setting of f8. It's just semantics but it IS important to understand so you do not get confused nor confuse others. Thank you all for commenting and watching the video. I really like responding to people's questions; it keeps me engaged and motivated to create new videos. Take care, everyone.
Smaller apertures …. such as f/5.6, f/8 or f/11 give a more ‘generous’ depth of field (more in focus, less chance of missing focus. Nothing “better” about that.
I am not keep on bokeh, but nothing “better” about that.
Love how that Sun in the back ground is moving slowly!
Glad you noticed the tiny detail!
Don’t tell me I’m the only one who looked into their phone camera🌝.
@@stilllunchly i think Samsung phones have dual aperture settings?
Yes. Some new Samsung phones have a dual-aperture setting that allows them to "stop down" from f1.5 to f2.4. I did some research and the whole implementation wasn't much of a success so they are not including it on the most recent generation now.
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You have given a basic information. Explained with pictures in a very easy way. Thanks.
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Fixed. Sorry, there was a copyright issue with one of the music pieces in the video. I just decided to demonitize the video so that the audio could stay in.
Thanks for this easy to follow.. I"m a visual learner. i am hoping this is the adjustment to minimizing crappy photos!!
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It is fixed now.
OMG this is the best video I’ve ever watched. Well explained for the aperture,as a beginners for photography class. I’ve been watching many TH-cam videos and searching many information on google a lot to understand the aperture, shutter speed and ISO. This video is so far the best video, it allows me to understand how to start using my camera. Thank you so much for the video and subscribed!!!!!!! :)
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Nice tutorial video, informative and clear.
May I just point out a mistake or misleading information that mislead a lot of people about noise and the use of ISO.
at 3:52 "reduce the amount of noise that your camera will produce if your ISO get bumped up".
In most of the photograph the noise comes from the light itself, the one produced by the camera is negligible compare to the 'photon noise', the noise induced by the variation of arriving time of light from one pixel to an other. More light you have less the proportion of noise (compare to light) is important, in other word the Signal to Noise is higher.
In fact, when increasing the ISO you decrease the referred noise produced by the camera, (when the noise is compared by to the photon noise). What change is the amount of light, usually lower at high ISO because the scene is dark or the shutter speed fast.
So faster lens help you to makes cleaner image just because it gather more light not because one would use a lower ISO.
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The lower the ISO the lower the noise you will have in your image. By having a faster lens, you can gather more light, allowing you to use lower ISO.
Hi there. "The lower the ISO the lower the noise you will have in your image". While I can understand what you want to mean, this is actually a false statement.
Usually image taken with a low ISO have less noise (actually no, they have more Signal to Noise) because they have been taken with more light in, e.i. brighter scene or slower shutter speed.
If you photograph the same scene with the same shutter speed, the same aperture but two different ISOs (taking care of not saturating any of the pic) you will end up with one picture darker than the other. But the quantity of noise will be sensibly the same in both picture, however slightly lower on the picture taken with the higher ISO. I know this is counter intuitive.
Why that ? Because most of the noise on both picture are coming from the light itself. Changing the ISO does not change the efficiency of the detector to capture light. It is just changing a multiplicative factor (call gain) that happen at low level.
Your post and video suggest that the noise is coming from the detector and this noise is higher when you increase the ISO. It is true that detector produce its own noise (their are several sources of this noise) but the main source of noise on a 99% of pictures is coming from the light itself: the so called photon noise or shot noise. If you allow the same quantity of light in your camera lowering the ISO will never decrease the noise (=increase the SNR). If you want to increase the SNR you need more light.
You can have a look on this page : www.photonstophotos.net/Charts/RN_e.htm it will show you the "input referred read noise" function to ISO for most of the camera in the market. This detector noise is the one to compare to the photon noise and you can see that it is decreasing (after a certain point defined by the constructor) when ISO increase.
An iPhone for instance has a detector with a read noise smaller than a DSLR (check on website above). But the detector and entrance pupil is globally much smaller on the iPhone and so capture much less light -> less SNR
I am working on photon detection. If you ever need to make a video on that topic like the great one you made, I would be happy to help.
cheers.
Okay, I get it now. That would be a good video topic! :)
Indeed it would be. I like to talk about those things but I do not have your talent for it.
I liked your animation, but I have a few bugs that I would like to clear out. Please take this as positive criticism, as I believe you have done a great job and I just want your video to be better.
0:20 - In the eye animation the pupil is moving around the iris instead of the pupil and iris going around the eye simulating the movement of the eyeball.
0:25 - The animation is showing the SCLERA of the eye and calling it the CORNEA. The Cornea isn't the white part, but the transparent part that goes over the iris.
3:00 - The statement that a prime "can't zoom without moving" is misleading. Primes can't zoom at all. It should refer this as framing the shot.
3:05 - The animation doesn't show the difference of dolling and zooming. While dolling reframes the shot, zooming flattens it. If both actions did the same thing, you could not create a popular "vertigo" (or dolly zoom) effect in movies.
3:37 - The aperture "affecting" the ISO and shutter speed is a bit of an overstatement. I know what you mean, but I feel that is an oversimplification. You tried to explain it later, but it just made it more complicated with the ISO.
Apart from that I really liked your animation. What I enjoyed the most was all the movement like zooming with the telephoto lens that makes the frame darker while moving the zoom ring on the animated lens itself and so on.
How long did it take you to animate this whole thing?
Thanks for the constructive criticism. It takes me about a month to produce one of these animations, since it's just myself who does the script writing, illustrations, and animating. This animation took me about 30-40 hours to make, but once I refine my workflow from Adobe Illustrator to Adobe After Effects, I should be able to decrease the time it takes for me to release animations. Right now, I am working on one concerning focal length, and I have just finished the script and most of the illustrations.
Wow I’m new to photography and just got a Sony a6300 and your videos have helped me a lot.
Aperture is a companny that produces shower curtains
And it's a reference to Portal 2 I am learning :D
By far, by far the best tutorial
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Finally i found an awesome channel to learn photography skills
The comparison to an eyeball made this more confusing.
Great explanation, they should use this in schools, thanks!
1:04 and im out
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This is the best video I have watched to explain aperture
The animation makes in video makes the understanding to next level.
Glad to hear. Thanks for watching!
Great video I just got my camera last friday and was over whelmed with the different lenses, this video helped me a lot. Thank You
Glad it helped, let me know if you have any other questions and I can try and answer them!
I loved this video for its easiness of understanding, the visuals, and great information in an easy format. Thank you.
I love this video - would love to see one on shutter speed
Sarah Karger it is currently in the works!