So you want to take some portraits with a shallow depth of field when using flash in an outdoor setting. Is it possible? Won’t my images be way overexposed? Well, in any situation where you have more light than you need, your image will be overexposed, yes. So, I’m stuck with a small aperture, like f16-ish, when I’m outside in …

I come across the question “how to learn about photography?” quite often and more times than not, the answer boils down to explaining what aperture, shutter speed and ISO are, the relationship between them and how they consequently determine exposure. While this approach is not wrong, I believe, since light is the raw material of photography, that learning about the …