Grassroots with passion 05
SPOT LIGHT
THROUGH THE EYE OF A CAMERA
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY EDWARD SEE, PBM
Photography is one of themost important innovations in modern living. Images help us to share a story, journal our experiences and relive memories. Photo-taking is a huge subject and it is not possible to do it any justice within a short piece such as this. So I will limit my discussion to what I consider two rather key aspects – Aperture and Composition, after which there is nothing like Trying it out yourself. In other words, ACT on your desire to capture life’s beautiful moments! Aperture setting First thing first, what you see with your eyes is not necessarily what can be captured with a camera. This is because we view in 3-dimensional space, while the camera “sees” in 2-dimensional. What we can see of the background in relation to the foreground subject may only
be captured with the camera, many a times, as the subject against a blurred background. This is where the aperture setting comes into play. The aperture setting in most DSLR’s allows you to control the amount of light coming into the camera, the smaller the aperture setting the less light coming through, and vice versa. But this also affects how the background will turn out, that is, the larger the aperture, the focus will be the subject matter, whereas the background will likely be blurred. Meanwhile, a smaller aperture allows a more balanced distribution across the whole frame photograph. If you want your subject to be the main focus without the distraction of the background, then use a larger aperture setting, but if you want an even focus then use a smaller aperture setting.
Left, with a larger aperture setting. Right, with a smaller aperture setting
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