alanr0
Senior Member
In partial mitigation, the lensrentals blog article does not waste too many words trying to explain how to use the exposure triangle in a quantitative manner, and the use of arrow heads is limited to only five.The ET is an interesting and elegant concept in my opinion, you simply have a different opinion and that's fine.Somewhat surprised to see this on Lensrentals.com
https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2020/07/photography-fundamentals-how-aperture-changes-photos/
There are no numbers on this version of the exposure triangle, which greatly limits the scope for confusion. If you take it to say:
- There are 3 parameters to consider.
- Each affects image quality and image brightness in different ways.
- Here is a simple visual reminder. Don't stress over the details.
Matters get more contentious when the ET has numbers attached, which give the impression that it might offer consistent and quantitative guidance on how to manage exposure and image brightness.
You may not agree, so I leave you with an observation.
If you construct an exposure triangle in which the sides corresponding to aperture, shutter speed and ISO sensitivity are labelled from low to high values, there are 8 different ways to construct the triangle. There are 4 ways of joining the first two sides, according to whether the first vertex corresponds to low values of both aperture and shutter speed (low/low), or the alternate low/high, high/low and high/high connections. For each of these 4 combination there are 2 different ways to attach the ISO range (high ISO to aperture side, or high ISO to shutter side).
This does not distinguish between simple rotations and reflections which do not change the basic connectivity.
Is there an obvious and logical way to construct the ET, so that the interactions and quantitative relationships between aperture, shutter speed and sensitivity are clear, intuitive and mathematically sound?
Do proponents of the exposure triangle agree on its construction?
Apparently not. Search Google images, and you will find that all 8 possible triangle constructions are in use.
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Alan Robinson
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