Originally posted by wvlights0:
...I finally have a basic grasp of ISO, shutter speed and aperture and how they affect my pictures. I am still working on f stop...
f-stop is a measure of the aperture they are the same.
Here's a link to some tables that I created to keep track of the impact of Aperture/Shutter/ISO on images:
CLICK HERE The top few lines shows the possible ranges for these three factors on a Nikon D5000. The next three sections show equivalent settings by keeping 2 of the 3 factors constant and varying the third. At the top of each section are <<< and >>> to indicate the impact on the images by choosing settings in those directions from the mid-point.
For example increasing the ISO makes the files "noisy" (what we called grain on film)
Increasing the shutter speed (faster) stops more action.
Decreasing the aperture (making the opening smaller) provides more depth of field.