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What Aperture Does, In Two Photos

Curious about why you’d want to pay attention to that f/number on your camera settings? Consider: Same subject, same lens, same camera, very different image.

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Curious about why you'd want to pay attention to that f/number on your camera settings? Consider:

Same subject, same lens, same camera, very different image.

Alex Wild is Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books and media outlets.

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