What Pros Know About APERTURE That Beginners Often Ignore

As someone that shoots 99% extreme low light (concert photography), I have a tendency to completely forget that aperture exists outside of wide open. It's definitely something I need to improve in my photography.

Beginner. I shoot with mostly 85mm 1.4 portrait. I can never get the eyes to be sharp in focus

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My girlfriend is 6ft tall but i want to photograph her laying down but have it sharp from her toes to her head what apature should i use ?

Another thing worth mentioning is that lenses usually / often have a sharpness sweet spot that is not wide open. For example, the Sigma 18-35 Art is sharpest at 3.5-5.6 so shooting wide open has more issues than just losing focus or over-blurring the BG.

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Great stuff Jason! Super well explained!

I love your videos and how relevant and accessible you make information. This would have been really handy six or seven years ago. When I was starting out the professional side

If you don’t want you 1.8 lens Professor, give it to me 😂

You’re the best 🔥

It’s wild to me that in this case, the bigger the number, the smaller the H0e. It’s usually the other way around where I’m from 😭
thanks for the information I’ve learned a lot about my camera by watching your channel 🙏

(in my best Kai W voice)
I prefer a slightly smaller hole. 🤣

Kidding aside, great video.👍

Brilliant video. Thanks for the detailed explanation.

Great explanation, thank you. I especially liked the "overhead" illustration.

Faster apertures are often horrible for group photos, as one person may be in focus and then one person slightly behind them are out of focus.

I was one of those beginners. I look back at many out of focus pictures with no composition. Though great for pro models with bad backgrounds, Bokeh is overrated. My favourite lens only goes up to F4. I look with more care at the surrounding environment.

How would you compensate for lower aperture loss of light when your slow shutter speed takes the sharpness away? Obviously not an issue with a tripod but if your subject/object is moving?

Awesome explanation, I just pushed that subscribe, watching from ventura. Im just using smartphone for vlog, I'm a newbie

Back in 2013 I was visiting Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. I forgot my main lens in the hotel, and took accidentally my canon 70-300mm f/4-5.6 is usm lens instead, and you can imagine how hard it was to take shots with this lens in a museum! since that date, I figured out i don’t need larger f stop to get nice shots! 😅

Thanks Jason for these crystal clear explanations !

Lol I've been shooting casually for 6 yrs now and I just realized why they call it Wider and Narrower. Thought to myself this whole time "Why would they call it wider when the number/f stop is low? Isn't wider supposed to mean a larger number" something like that hahaha

Thank you for the refresher!

Outstanding video Jason!!!

Here's the thing of you grow up in the hood you know this early in life, but these white dudes who grow up with everything??? Good luck Chuck 😂😂😂

This was great 👍 Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us, much appreciated

Large aperture lenses was designed to collect more light in orderto make the image is brighter in the viewfinder of a SLR... Most of the time they are terrible wide open in terms of resolution, light fall off in the corners, chromatism, etc.... (there are some exceptions)

Perfect explanation, keep providing content like this💪🏼🔥

Trust me, pros know this…now if you want the real gritty, my channel has the real stuff pros do not know. This video is good for newbies for sure.

This world is messed up. Someone who is vocal and popular started spreading false information, everyone follows. When everyone is doing it, it is the right thing. I don't think this video will help those fallen into the trap of worshipping a big hole. It is fixed in this f- up world we live in.

Thank you

Real pros don’t shoot with Sony for a start

This was a crazy helpful video. Any newbie like myself should watch this I have been struggling to take not just clear pictures but low light as well as as someone said in the comment buying all these lenses without knowing how they work is a newbie trap. I have been gotten

Very informative. Thank you so much for this!

I personally like Aperture more when its around f2.8 to f5.6 everything more is just a waste of shutter time and ISO.

You also need a lot of light.

nice video ❤

I appreciate this Jason! I just got into photography and I was thinking exactly what you were talking about, low f-stops every time 😭, which is not always a good thing

Thanks for the video ❤

Very useful info. Thanks for the refresher course.

More of these please
Good, easy coverage on the basics 👌

Thank you...this is really helpful!!!

This video is really helpful and just in time for my new camera. Thanks!

Got the basics covered very nicely! Keep it up man!

Thanks mate

great video! very good info. thanks jason!

It took you years to understand depth of field?

Jason, I miss your "THHISSS"

Thicc…. 👍🏼😂

i wish this was around 7 years ago when I was starting. Thx mate.

I love your approach at explaining this!