Controlling Exposure in Photography

How do we control exposure in photography? Exposure is controlled by 3 things: Shutter speed Aperture ISO These all work together to control the amount of light that is recorded by your digital sensor. If we decrease one, we can compensate by increasing another. Lets look at an example to demonstrate this relationship. If we take the images above and start at 1/60th...

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Exposure & F-Stops

What is Exposure in Digital SLR Photography? Firstly lets look at exposure in its simplest form. Exposure is the brightness of your image, or the amount of light that has been recorded on your sensor. Below is a diagram that shows what happens when we shoot the exact same scene, but either double the time that the sensor is exposed to the light (going to the right), or...

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