ok so just making sure i understand iso, aperture and shutter speed

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Iso is light the more light the more crap and noise that can get into your photo.

aperutre is field of view so smaller # the smaller the view which is for small object or 1 subject. this creates a bluey back ground. Higher the number the bigger the depth of view. so if you have a group of people you would make the aperture larger to keeps everyone in focus

shutter speed is the less the number the more flowing of the pic. like water falls think car lights at night. makes it a ling and silky.. higher the number the more detailed back ground.
 
You have It pretty much all wrong!
The aperture is the working diameter of the lens. The greater the working diameter, the more light the lens can gather. Your camera’s automatization or you manually can alter the working diameter of the lens. We are talking about adjusting the diameter of this lens opening. This adjustment is accomplished by a mechanical device that uses overlapping blades. This device called the Iris (after the Greek goddess of the rainbow, mimics the way the colored portion of the human eye adjusts to changing light levels).

We close down this opening when working in bright light and we open up this opening when working in dim light. The size (diameter) of the aperture is one of key adjustments we have to control exposure.
Aperture adjustments don’t change the angle of view of the lens. They do change the span of the what we call depth-of-field. Tiny openings yield a greater span of depth-of-field. Larger openings have a shallow span of depth-of-field. Depth-of-field is that span fore and aft of the point focused upon that is considered to be acceptably in focus.

ISO (International Standards Organization) devices the methods we use to quantify the sensitivity of the digital camera sensor to light, and photo film also. Low sensitivity is about 100 ISO whereas 2000 ISO is quite high. This is also a key control we use to set the camera’s exposure. In a digital camera, the higher ISO setting require that camera amplify the image signals. This results in some static we call noise. The higher the ISO setting the more noise. Modern cameras handle high ISO setting better than you think.

Shutter speed is the time the camera shutter remains open during the exposure. We can usually hand-hold the camera at 1/60 of a second or faster. Below this setting, camera shake is likely and this blurs the resulting picture. Subject movement also plays its part. Best to use a high shutter speed like 1/250 or faster. Choice of shutter speed is based on light level, subject motion, camera shake and artistic desire.
 
You have It pretty much all wrong!
The aperture is the working diameter of the lens. The greater the working diameter, the more light the lens can gather. Your camera’s automatization or you manually can alter the working diameter of the lens. We are talking about adjusting the diameter of this lens opening. This adjustment is accomplished by a mechanical device that uses overlapping blades. This device called the Iris (after the Greek goddess of the rainbow, mimics the way the colored portion of the human eye adjusts to changing light levels).

We close down this opening when working in bright light and we open up this opening when working in dim light. The size (diameter) of the aperture is one of key adjustments we have to control exposure.
Aperture adjustments don’t change the angle of view of the lens. They do change the span of the what we call depth-of-field. Tiny openings yield a greater span of depth-of-field. Larger openings have a shallow span of depth-of-field. Depth-of-field is that span fore and aft of the point focused upon that is considered to be acceptably in focus.

ISO (International Standards Organization) devices the methods we use to quantify the sensitivity of the digital camera sensor to light, and photo film also. Low sensitivity is about 100 ISO whereas 2000 ISO is quite high. This is also a key control we use to set the camera’s exposure. In a digital camera, the higher ISO setting require that camera amplify the image signals. This results in some static we call noise. The higher the ISO setting the more noise. Modern cameras handle high ISO setting better than you think.

Shutter speed is the time the camera shutter remains open during the exposure. We can usually hand-hold the camera at 1/60 of a second or faster. Below this setting, camera shake is likely and this blurs the resulting picture. Subject movement also plays its part. Best to use a high shutter speed like 1/250 or faster. Choice of shutter speed is based on light level, subject motion, camera shake and artistic desire.
all wrong is a little dramatic tho
 
YOU ARE NOT "WRONG", you seem to have the (basic) concepts, but your terminology is way-off.
Iso is light the more light the more crap and noise that can get into your photo.
ISO is a "lightness" control.

But first of all you must define whether you are in "M" (manual) exposure mode --or-- one of the "auto"-exposure modes (P/A/S) = Program / Aperture-priority / Shutter-priority.

In manual ("M"), ISO affects (only) lightness and has no direct effect on DOF or noise, (except that the already existing noise may become more visible).

In auto (P/A/S), ISO affects the exposure, (light/unit-area), by influencing the f/stop or shutter-speed -- this will then affect the lightness, (and noise & Depth-Of-Field/DOF).
aperutre is field of view so smaller # the smaller the view which is for small object or 1 subject. this creates a bluey back ground. Higher the number the bigger the depth of view. so if you have a group of people you would make the aperture larger to keeps everyone in focus
Aperture is expressed as f/stop and it does indeed affect the DEPTH-Of-Field / DOF, for blurry background AND FOREGROUND.

You are correct that the higher the f/stop number, (aka f/16), the "deeper" the DOF.

Note that "field"-of-view is normally referring to the width of the lens-angle. (aka FOCAL-LENGTH of wide-angle or telephoto lens).
shutter speed is the less the number the more flowing of the pic. like water falls think car lights at night. makes it a ling and silky.. higher the number the more detailed back ground.
You are pretty much correct there ... the larger the number, (aka 1/1000s), the more likely to "freeze" (moving) action, or less camera-"shake" blur.

If you have a tripod, you can use (example) 1/sec, for flowing-water or streaky car-lights.
 
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Iso is light the more light the more crap and noise that can get into your photo.

aperutre is field of view so smaller # the smaller the view which is for small object or 1 subject. this creates a bluey back ground. Higher the number the bigger the depth of view. so if you have a group of people you would make the aperture larger to keeps everyone in focus

shutter speed is the less the number the more flowing of the pic. like water falls think car lights at night. makes it a ling and silky.. higher the number the more detailed back ground.
Well played, sir! 😂
 
Iso is light the more light the more crap and noise that can get into your photo.

aperutre is field of view so smaller # the smaller the view which is for small object or 1 subject. this creates a bluey back ground. Higher the number the bigger the depth of view. so if you have a group of people you would make the aperture larger to keeps everyone in focus

shutter speed is the less the number the more flowing of the pic. like water falls think car lights at night. makes it a ling and silky.. higher the number the more detailed back ground.
Well played, sir! 😂
Just learning and my first camera is a a74. not many can say that. i love taking pictures i want to perfect it. :)
 
Iso is light
ISO is not light but it influences the lightness of the image you see on the camera screen or your monitor.
the more light the more crap and noise that can get into your photo.
The more light hits your sensor the less 'crap' ie. noise can be seen in the image.
aperutre is field of view
The aperture is not field of view. That is determined by sensor size + focal length of lens.
so smaller # the smaller the view which is for small object or 1 subject.
The smaller the number, the larger is the opening that lets in light on your sensor.
this creates a bluey back ground.
I suppose you meant to say blurry. Small number/big opening indeed allows you to blur the background. The f number is the aperture diameter divided by the focal length. That's why a larger number means a smaller aperture.
Higher the number the bigger the depth of view.
Called depth of field but yes.
so if you have a group of people you would make the aperture larger to keeps everyone in focus
If the people are at different distances you would make the aperture smaller = the f number bigger to increase depth of field to make sure every face is acceptably sharp.
shutter speed is the less the number the more flowing of the pic.
Shutter speed can be expressed either as fractions of a second (which it is) such as 1/125 or, as it is more often marked on camera displays, as just the denominator (125) so in the latter case smaller number indeed gives more motion blur or 'flow' as you call it. If the shutter speed is a second or more (usually indicated by the second symbol ") the larger number obviously means slower shutter speed (longer time the shutter is open).
like water falls
Yes water falls are often shot with slow shutter speeds to make them look misty.
think car lights at night
Yes car light trails are another popular subject for long exposures.
makes it a ling and silky.. higher the number the more detailed back ground.
Don't get that. Background sharpness/blur depends on aperture as mentioned earlier + camera to subject/subject to background distance.
 
Iso is light the more light the more crap and noise that can get into your photo.

aperutre is field of view so smaller # the smaller the view which is for small object or 1 subject. this creates a bluey back ground. Higher the number the bigger the depth of view. so if you have a group of people you would make the aperture larger to keeps everyone in focus

shutter speed is the less the number the more flowing of the pic. like water falls think car lights at night. makes it a ling and silky.. higher the number the more detailed back ground.
The 'field of view' is controlled by the focal length of the lens.

Aperture is the size of the optical 'hole' in the lens through which the light comes. It's usually give in relation to the focal length, as a formula, so if you say 'the aperture is f/2.8', 'f' stands for the focal length, '/' stands for 'divide' and '2.8' is the number that you divide it by to get the aperture. If we didn't do it this way we'd need to set a different number on lenses of different focal lengths to get the same amount of light on the sensor. Aperture controls what is called 'depth of field', how much of the image looks sharp.

The shutter speed controls for how long the sensor is exposed to light. If you have a slow shutter speed moving objects will be blurred by their movement. With a short one you can freeze motion.

Together the aperture and shutter speed, along with the amount of light coming from the scene, control the 'exposure' how much light is collected by each equal area patch of the sensor.

ISO controls what is the relationship between this exposure and how light or dark your final picture looks, which is called 'lightness'. ISO is inversely proportional to the exposure that will produce a standard lightness (actually an 18% grey) in the final image. A high ISO means that this 18% grey is produced by a small exposure, a low ISO means that it is produced by a large exposure. Thus by choosing an ISO setting you can determine the exposure which will produce a final result with a pleasing range of tones. The camera has an exposure meter, which shows how much above or below that exposure is the exposure given by the current shutter and aperture settings and the light coming from the scene you are photographing.

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You have It pretty much all wrong!
And you got most of it wrong!
The aperture is the working diameter of the lens. The greater the working diameter, the more light the lens can gather. Your camera’s automatization or you manually can alter the working diameter of the lens. We are talking about adjusting the diameter of this lens opening. This adjustment is accomplished by a mechanical device that uses overlapping blades. This device called the Iris (after the Greek goddess of the rainbow, mimics the way the colored portion of the human eye adjusts to changing light levels).

We close down this opening when working in bright light and we open up this opening when working in dim light. The size (diameter) of the aperture is one of key adjustments we have to control exposure.
Not necessarily. Often you open up the aperture because you want shallow DOF and close it down because you want deep DOF. Given that you have another control that can also control exposure, you need to choose which one you use and why. You also need to work out what you're controlling exposure for. You mention DOF below, but from what you write it seems that it's a side effect, rather than something that you actually seek to control.
Aperture adjustments don’t change the angle of view of the lens. They do change the span of the what we call depth-of-field. Tiny openings yield a greater span of depth-of-field. Larger openings have a shallow span of depth-of-field. Depth-of-field is that span fore and aft of the point focused upon that is considered to be acceptably in focus.

ISO (International Standards Organization)
International Organization for Standardization.
devices the methods we use to quantify the sensitivity of the digital camera sensor to light,
No it doesn't. ISO speed ratings and exposure indices have no direct relation to the sensitivity of the sensor to light. They can only be called 'sensitivity' (of the whole camera, not the sensor) because ISO has developed its own special definition of 'photographic sensitivity', which doesn't really accord with anything a normal person would think of as 'sensitivity'.
and photo film also.
The film ISO ratings (apart from that for slide film) were closer to 'sensitivity', but still not exactly 'sensitivity'.
Low sensitivity is about 100 ISO whereas 2000 ISO is quite high. This is also a key control we use to set the camera’s exposure.
We use the aperture and shutter speed to set exposure. The ISO only affects the metering and the exposure at which the meter centres. Thereby it sets the exposure that we get using the shutter and aperture, if we follow the metering.
In a digital camera, the higher ISO setting require that camera amplify the image signals.
No it doesn't. Not at all. Often there is variable voltage gain as ISO is adjusted, but that's not 'required', it's an optimisation.
This results in some static we call noise.
No it doesn't. The noise at high ISO settings is the result of using a small exposure, thus fewer photons making up the image and what is called 'photon shot noise'.
The higher the ISO setting the more noise.
The variable voltage gain mentioned above has the effect of making the camera produce less noise at high ISO settings.
Modern cameras handle high ISO setting better than you think.

Shutter speed is the time the camera shutter remains open during the exposure. We can usually hand-hold the camera at 1/60 of a second or faster.
Depends on the focal length of the lens and whether you have IS.
Below this setting, camera shake is likely and this blurs the resulting picture. Subject movement also plays its part. Best to use a high shutter speed like 1/250 or faster.
Unless you want some motion blur for effect.
Choice of shutter speed is based on light level, subject motion, camera shake and artistic desire.
Really the last three. You might choose to go for a longer shutter speed due to low light, but shake tends to be more deadly for a picture than a bit of extra noise.

So, lots of errors. Not your fault, the fault of those that taught you this stuff, and there is a whole load of vary bad teaching material out there. It's worthwhile not passing it on to beginners. But telling the OP he had it all wrong wasn't the best place to start. Think what you feel like having just been told what you got wrong.

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Iso is light the more light the more crap and noise that can get into your photo.

aperutre is field of view so smaller # the smaller the view which is for small object or 1 subject. this creates a bluey back ground. Higher the number the bigger the depth of view. so if you have a group of people you would make the aperture larger to keeps everyone in focus

shutter speed is the less the number the more flowing of the pic. like water falls think car lights at night. makes it a ling and silky.. higher the number the more detailed back ground.
Well played, sir! 😂
Just learning and my first camera is a a74. not many can say that. i love taking pictures i want to perfect it. :)
They still don’t get it. 🍿 😉
 
Iso is light the more light the more crap and noise that can get into your photo.

aperutre is field of view so smaller # the smaller the view which is for small object or 1 subject. this creates a bluey back ground. Higher the number the bigger the depth of view. so if you have a group of people you would make the aperture larger to keeps everyone in focus

shutter speed is the less the number the more flowing of the pic. like water falls think car lights at night. makes it a ling and silky.. higher the number the more detailed back ground.
Well played, sir! 😂
Just learning and my first camera is a a74. not many can say that. i love taking pictures i want to perfect it. :)
They still don’t get it. 🍿 😉
who is "they"? im saying at the current moment im in auto mode and i want to get out of auto. To do this i have to learn the 3 key ways to get a exposure. What is it im not getting ?

please explain
 
Iso is light the more light the more crap and noise that can get into your photo.

aperutre is field of view so smaller # the smaller the view which is for small object or 1 subject. this creates a bluey back ground. Higher the number the bigger the depth of view. so if you have a group of people you would make the aperture larger to keeps everyone in focus

shutter speed is the less the number the more flowing of the pic. like water falls think car lights at night. makes it a ling and silky.. higher the number the more detailed back ground.
Well played, sir! 😂
Just learning and my first camera is a a74. not many can say that. i love taking pictures i want to perfect it. :)
They still don’t get it. 🍿 😉
who is "they"? im saying at the current moment im in auto mode and i want to get out of auto. To do this i have to learn the 3 key ways to get a exposure. What is it im not getting ?

please explain
I thought you were a parody. If not, I apologise.
 
Iso is light the more light the more crap and noise that can get into your photo.

aperutre is field of view so smaller # the smaller the view which is for small object or 1 subject. this creates a bluey back ground. Higher the number the bigger the depth of view. so if you have a group of people you would make the aperture larger to keeps everyone in focus

shutter speed is the less the number the more flowing of the pic. like water falls think car lights at night. makes it a ling and silky.. higher the number the more detailed back ground.
Well played, sir! 😂
Just learning and my first camera is a a74. not many can say that. i love taking pictures i want to perfect it. :)
They still don’t get it. 🍿 😉
who is "they"? im saying at the current moment im in auto mode and i want to get out of auto. To do this i have to learn the 3 key ways to get a exposure. What is it im not getting ?

please explain
I thought you were a parody. If not, I apologise.
no worries we cant all be like you coming out of the womb as a professional photographer. Have you published any professional work?
 
Iso is light the more light the more crap and noise that can get into your photo.
Generally speaking, the more light that is captured during exposure, the cleaner the image will be.

ISO is the relationship between the intensity of light falling on the scene and how bright the final image is. ISO controls two functions:
  • Metering. The camera measures the amount of light reflected by the scene towards the camera, and ISO determines the shutter speed and aperture combinations that the camera can use. High ISO values will expose the sensor less than low ISO values.
  • Processing. The lightness of the final image is adjusted to give you consistent lightness with whatever ISO you use. High ISO values will lighten an image more than low ISO values, so that you'll end up with the same lightness.
If more light is recorded by the camera, then you'd typically have a better signal-to-noise ratio (a cleaner image), but in dim lighting you might not be able to hand-hold the camera without camera shake, and so high ISO will let you use a faster shutter speed, and the image will be suitably brightened more.
aperutre is field of view so smaller # the smaller the view which is for small object or 1 subject. this creates a bluey back ground. Higher the number the bigger the depth of view. so if you have a group of people you would make the aperture larger to keeps everyone in focus
Field of view is the width of the scene captured by the camera at the focus distance, and is more closely related to angle of view, which is determined by the focal length, sensor size, and the geometric projection of the lens. So the aperture has no effect on the field of view.

The aperture is instead the "optical hole" of the lens when you view it from the front of the lens. It may be wide or it may be narrow, and it is often adjustable in width via an iris mechanism.

Instead of using a physical measurement, like 25 millimeters for the width, photographers have devised a dimensionless ratio, called the f/stop, which is the focal length of a lens divided by the aperture width. This f/stop is hugely important as light meters don't need to know anything at all about the focal length of a lens or its aperture width: a given f/stop value will expose the image equally as well on any lens and camera.

The aperture width is very useful in directly estimating how much background blur, or how deep of depth of field you'll get from a lens. Basically, the bigger the aperture width, the more blur, and consequently, the narrower the width, the less blur (up to a point, thanks to diffraction).

It should be obvious that a wide aperture width will let through more light than a narrow one, and as the f/stop is the inverse of aperture width, smaller f/stop values will let through more light than large f/stop values.
shutter speed is the less the number the more flowing of the pic. like water falls think car lights at night. makes it a ling and silky.. higher the number the more detailed back ground.
Some cameras literally have a shutter mechanism—a physical screen that completely blocks the light from the sensor—while newer cameras have electronic equivalents. The "shutter speed" is the duration of how long the shutter is open: 1/1000th of a second, 1/100th second, 1/10th of a second, 1 second, 10 seconds, whatever.

If the shutter is open for a long time, it makes sense that moving objects in the scene will be blurred, and likewise, a tiny fraction of a second shutter duration will be able to freeze quick motion.

But fast shutter speeds limit the amount of light that is actually detected.
 
So you want to get out of auto ,

here’s something that might help you .

If you are in full control of the light and the subject then full manual control is great .

If you’re trying something creative and need to against the cameras metering then manual is great .
Now if your not in control of the lighting and the subject then using one of the semi automatic modes is a better option .

The skill is knowing when it’s best to use which one . PASM all have their uses .

The most confusing thing about exposure is the triangle that is used to explain it . Back in the film days it worked , but now with digital it’s a little different.

So keeping simple .

noise comes from under exposure and not directly related to iso . An image taken at iso 100 can contain more noise than an image taken at iso800 as an example. This fact is the hardest thing to get your head around as everyone talks about the exposure triangle and comes up with high iso means more noise.
Aperture to control depth of field ( you will need to experiment with this based on your taste.
Shutter speed, to blur or freeze ( again experiment to taste)

most of all have fun .
 
I suggest a good book on photography basics.
am i wrong?
You are so far away from understanding the basic concepts of photography
No he is not ... his terminoligy is wrong and the language differences makes it worse.

But he's got the basic concepts.
that, as Bob recommends, you really need to buy a book.

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In auto, ISO is a controlling factor of exposure (light), but he did have it backward when he stated "more" light (exposure) can result in more crap/noise.

He did seem to associate aperture with "smaller field-of-view", but reading further made clear he meant Depth-Of-Field to isolate a single (1) subject w/ a blurry background, (and a "higher number" to keep a group in focus).

He has SS spot-on but his terminology was not what we are used to.
 
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