Exposure

• To get a rich image with realistic tones, dark

but detail shadows, and bright, delicate
highlights, you need to expose your film /
image sensor correctly
 Exposure ?

The exposure is the amount of light received

by the film or sensor
 Light Exposure
We express ‘exposure’ by using 3 terms :
• Over exposure
(too much light)

• Normal exposure
(just enough light)

• Under exposure (less light)

 Normal exposure
Exposing film / image sensor properly, letting
the right amount of light into the camera, involves
understanding three (3) things:
1. How the shutter speed and the aperture work together to
control the amount of light that reaches the film/ sensor
2. ISO rating or sensitivity of the ccd in your digital camera
3. How to meter the amount of light & the set the camera’s
control, either automatically or manual.
 Shutter
• Shutter : a mechanism in a camera that opens
and closes to admit light into a camera for a
measured length of time.

More higher no (..60, 125…..1000, mean more faster the speed—more

less amount of light entering to a camera)
More smaller no as …60, 30, 15, 8…., mean more slower the speed &
more amount of light entering to a camera …)
 aperture
• Aperture: the size of lens opening through
which light passes.

The plates in the iris diaphragm fold in on

each other to shrink the aperture and expand
out to make it wider.
 F number can be set

In digital camera we see F no at the display panel- by rotate the dial button you
can change F no.
Size of opening represent by F No / F stop series :
more small F no : more wider opening-more amount of light
enter …
more big F no : more small opening-more less light
Aperture & Shutter Speed relationship
 ISO : International standard organization
• ISO speed – 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1000, 1600, 3200
Low sensitivity (slow reaction to light) High sensitivity (Fast reaction to light)

• A rating of a film's sensitivity to light. Though

digital cameras don't use film, they have
adopted the same rating system for describing
the sensitivity of the camera's imaging sensor
ISO : 50,100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200