Manual 101

Exposure Triangle: The exposure triangle is a way of understanding the manual components of photography. It includes three things, as the name triangle suggests. ISO, shutter speed, and aperture. combing high and low settings of each of these can lead to different effects taking place in the photo. To being explaining them we can start with ISO.

ISO is a measurement that measures the camera's current sensitivity to light, meaning, a higher ISO will make the camera more sensitive, producing brighter and more exposed images.

In these two images above I am inside the elevator which is a darker place. the photo on the left has an iso of 800 whereas the photo on the right has an ISO of 6400. You can obviously tell that the one on the right is brighter because it's at a higher setting

Next, the shutter speed is the length for which the shutter stays open. starting at higher speeds such as 1/250th of a second means it's open for not very long, therefore letting less light in which makes images darker. lower speeds making it brighter because it has a longer time to let light in. In one of our shutter speed projects, we used a technique utilizing long shutter speed. by setting our camera to longer shutter speeds we were able to get light trails from things like neon signs and car tail lights.

thirdly; Aperture is the diameter that your camera shutter opens. A lower aperture means its open wider, letting in more light so that images are brighter but the main mechanic of aperture is the depth of field, with lower aperture, the camera can focus more on single planes of distance. In this photo, I used a low aperture and focused on the car to create a blurring depth of field effect on the reflection of the car in the mirror.