Aperture Quiz

The Aperture Quiz

Conventional Cameras

What does an aperture do?

  Controls the amount of light passing through the lens.

What happens to the amount of light let into the camera when we open up the aperture by one stop?

 

Write down the standard f-numbers (apertures) from f/2.8 to f/16 that are found on a lens.

  f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11

Is f/16 a small or large aperture?

What size aperture has been used to create this shot?

  f/5.6

Now you have worked out what size aperture has been used, what

f-number would you see on the camera lens?

What do we call the effect (seen in the picture above) created by using different apertures?

What is the advantage of using the effect shown in the image above?