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F I L M A N D P H O T O G R A P H Y B A S I C S 85 With the right angles and while considering the rule of thirds, you can create compelling film captures of the world around you. Keep these composition tips in mind and go be fearless! LESSON 2: EXPOSURE Sara's second lesson is about exposure. To start, she explains the concepts of aperture, shutter and ISO. This is how she explains aperture: Think of it like an eyeball. When you're looking at the sun, your pupils physically get really, really small. When you turn back and you're looking at a more neutral, darker setting, your irises are going to open up that much more and let that light back. When your aperture is as open as it can be you're creating a really, really, really shallow focus. Sara likes to keep her aperture at 2.8 and that means that there's just a little bit of space for your camera to recognize things and focus and everything else around will be blurred. Alternately, with an aperture of 11, 20 or 22, you're able to see everything in focus around it. She finds 2.8 ideal for storytelling because it helps her focus on people, smiles, objects, and details. "I'm often trying to pull attention to one thing. I think people probably love the aperture open photos the most too, just because you get blurred stuff around and it looks really beautiful." Shutter speed is how fast your shutter in the camera is going to close and open in a second. In that second of it being up and down, light is being let in. Your shutter speed,