{"id":34,"date":"2015-01-31T21:44:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T21:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2015-02-01T11:18:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T17:18:41","slug":"putting-it-all-together-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Putting it all together: Exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cExposure\u201d is the choices made in the Exposure Triangle and how it looks in the final picture.\u00a0 An image is properly exposed when it is not too bright and not too dark.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is an image I took on July 9, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014-07-09_15.30.00_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-35\" src=\"http:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014-07-09_15.30.00_001-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"2014-07-09_15.30.00_001\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014-07-09_15.30.00_001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014-07-09_15.30.00_001-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The exposure triangle settings for this image were:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Aperture: f\/6.3<br \/>\nShutter Speed: 1\/800 sec<br \/>\nISO: 100<\/p>\n<p>Equally good exposures could have been had with a shutter that is half as fast and an aperture that lets in twice as much light, that is, make the aperture smaller by one stop and make the shutter speed slower by one stop:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Aperture: f\/8.8<br \/>\nShutter Speed: 1\/400 sec<br \/>\nISO: 100<\/p>\n<p>Here is a table that shows lots of exposure triangle values that would have worked well:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Triangle<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>Ex 1<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>Ex 2<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>Ex 3<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>Ex 4<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>Ex 5<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>Ex 6<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Aperture<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>f\/6.3<\/td>\n<td>f\/8.8<\/td>\n<td>f\/6.3<\/td>\n<td>f\/3.1<\/td>\n<td>f\/4.5<\/td>\n<td>f\/1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Shutter Speed<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>1\/800<\/td>\n<td>1\/400<\/td>\n<td>1\/1600<\/td>\n<td>1\/1600<\/td>\n<td>1\/800<\/td>\n<td>1\/7700<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>ISO<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>100<\/td>\n<td>100<\/td>\n<td>200<\/td>\n<td>200<\/td>\n<td>100<\/td>\n<td>100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I chose this image because there would not be much difference in the final photograph for any of these choices.<\/p>\n<p>Why does one choose one set of values over another one?\u00a0 That is the $10,000 question!\u00a0 For now, let\u2019s say that the answer to that question is, \u201cIt depends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full answer to that question is addressed in the next section.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Of course, sometimes you WANT an image to look dark or to look light.\u00a0 We\u2019ll skip that for now.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Next:\u00a0<a title=\"The Secondary Effects in the Exposure Triangle\" href=\"http:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/?page_id=52\">Secondary effects in the Exposure Triangle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cExposure\u201d is the choices made in the Exposure Triangle and how it looks in the final picture.\u00a0 An image is properly exposed when it is not too bright and not too dark.[1] Here is an image I took on July 9, 2014. The exposure triangle settings for this image were: Aperture: f\/6.3 Shutter Speed: 1\/800&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,6,9],"tags":[3,2,5,4],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aperture","category-iso","category-overview","category-shutter-speed","tag-aperture","tag-exposure","tag-iso","tag-shutter-speed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/light.elliottmccrory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}