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Exposure isn't everything

Exposure isn't everything

- Recently I was poking around in a photography forum and I was reading a thread that was a discussion of the composition of a particular image. It was a good discussion, and then someone chimed in with what were your exposure settings? I hear this in workshops and classrooms from time to time and I have to say I always wonder, why are you asking that question? Don't get me wrong, if you're a beginning photographer, there's a lot you can learn if you know the exposure settings that were used for a given image. If you're still not comfortable with whether a big aperture makes a deeper, deep or shallow depth of field, or if you're still not comfortable what size number corresponds to big or small aperture, then yeah, careful analysis and thought about the exposure settings that you're seeing with a given image, that can help you learn. What I worry about, if you're a photographer who's already comfortable with your exposure theory, is that you are looking at those exposure settings…

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