One of the reasons to move up from a cellphone or point-and-shoot cameras to a DSLR or digital mirrorless one is the ability to exert control over your exposures with the latter. With cellphones or ...

DSLRs and other advanced cameras have a ton of letters, symbols, and weird buttons on them. Every photographer must go through the quest of learning what each setting does, and today we are talking ...

The aperture is made up of mechanical blades that increases or decreases in size depending on the aperture you select. In humans, the iris is a thin, circular structure in the eye, responsible for ...

A new depth of field tool highlights the changes to HSC Edit 1.6, a collection of plug-ins for Apple’s Aperture photo workflow app. The bundle from HumanSoftware provides 16 plug-ins for more than ...

The area in an image from front to back that is in focus. The smaller the aperture (the larger the f-stop number), the more objects are in focus both near and distant. The wider the aperture (the ...

Replay: Today's large sensor cameras allow us much more control over depth of field than older, small sensor devices. Here's some tips on how to use depth of field as a creative tool. When DSLR video ...

As amateur photographers grow in skill and move to more sophisticated cameras, one of the challenges they face is learning how to control depth of field. Depth of field—the portion of a scene that ...