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Quotes About Aperture

When a fortress is besieged from all sides, there is nothing narrow-minded about guarding it with one's life, sealing every pathway, every door and window, even the tiniest aperture.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Low light demanded 'fast' film, usually ISO 400 or higher; the fastest available would be about ISO 1000. When the sun was bright, you would reach for ISO 64 to avoid the burned-out look of overexposure.
~ David Hewson
bullet wound n. ballistically induced aperture in the subcutaneous environment
~ William D. Lutz
Christ is the aperture through which the immensity and magnificence of God can be seen.
~ John Bertram Phillips
A small lens gives you a very specific look. You don't have a shallow depth of field.
~ Sean Baker
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.
~ Edward Hoagland
The light which enlightens us bathes the whole of creation but it enters us through a narrow aperture
~ John Main
For low light, all the light rays participate. We're using all the light coming through a large aperture to make a picture with a large depth of field - totally impossible with a conventional camera.
~ Ren Ng
If I were ever asked by some young, sensitive writer just starting out, what key lesson I've learned in life (which I'll never be), I'd probably say that there is no aperture of egress, however tiny and exquisitely sensitive, that can't be turned into an aperture of ingress.
~ Mark Leyner
I see holes like eyes
~ Stephen King
I went on to explain that it is an honour, and also that we need a transport policy. "If by 'we' you mean Britain, that's perfectly true," he acknowledged. "But if by 'we' you mean you and me and this Department, we need a transport policy like an aperture in the cranial cavity.
~ Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay
When a regular camera focuses physically, what the regular camera is doing is adjusting the lens relative to the sensor to bring different parts of the scene into focus.
~ Ren Ng
The standard series of f-stops, or f-numbers, is: 1, 1.4, 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22, 32
~ Steven Ascher
There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That's perfectly alright; it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.
~ Carl Sagan
FARBSS (Friedman Archives Recipe for Better Sports Shots) method, which you may wish to commit to a memory location: · Set your camera to A (Aperture Priority) mode (yes, APERTURE). · Set the F/stop all the way open (lowest number). · Set ISO to something reasonable depending on your light. Your target goal for shutter speed is 1/2000th of a second or faster. · Set Focus mode to AF-C. · Set Focus Area to Wide. · Set Drive Mode to Continuous Shooting in Mid- or Hi-speed mode.
~ Gary L. Friedman
Filmmaking is challenging for men and women. In both cases, it is incredibly difficult. And gender is neither a guarantee of greater sensitivity, capacity for empathy or aperture.
~ Claudia Llosa
Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.
~ Thomas Wolfe
There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.
~ Cormac McCarthy
To put this another way, my words here recede from lived experience. But in the end there's too much reproach and ignorance—depression as a cause for disgrace and contempt—for me not to write them anyway. Words, after all, remain, in this world, an aperture through which might appear some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears.
~ David Guterson
closure, that impossible thing that no one had ever experienced in life, because there always seemed to be a little aperture, a slit of light.
~ Meg Wolitzer