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tween 100 and 200, the aperture is between 8 and 14. Shutter
speed, for the most part, has little to do with image quality. Rais-

ing my ISO or lowering my aperture would have allowed me to
get an image, but I would have lost quality. Even if I had decided

to go that route, the higher the ISO, the more noise in an image.
The more noise, the more you lose image quality. Coupled with a
shallower depth of field, my images would have looked flat and

drained of color.

It is also true that raising ISO can have another side effect - “hot
spots” that the camera can handle easily at F-8 suddenly

1 After sensors with roughly 24 MP in a DSLR, this isn’t true. Optimal aperture
drops significantly so that by 50 MP, optimal aperture drops to 3.2. This is not true in
a medium format camera.

...artistic vision isn’t

like adding 2+2. I can’t du-

plicate the same vision each

and every time because I am

not the same person. I liter-

ally see the world differ-

ently each time. ..

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