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Anonymous
>>37179 Right, okay, stop saying "smaller aperture number". Photographers refer to apertures as larger (or wider, or bigger, or whatever) or smaller (..narrower, etc. The actual adjective doesn't really matter), they don't refer to higher or lower aperture numbers. We only refer to the numbers as numbers when we're explaining to newbies how a higher number means a smaller aperture. When you say an aperture's smaller or bigger, you should be referring to the actual diameter of the hole, not the number that gives the ratio of the diameter of the hole to the focal length of the lens.
So when he said for you to use a smaller aperture, he was NOT saying a smaller aperture NUMBER, he was saying a smaller aperture.
Of course, to confuse matters, he didn't check the aperture in the picture. So he gave both a value smaller (f/5.6) and larger (f/4) than the f/4.5 you used. What he ought to have said was "just use a smaller aperture. f/5.6 or f/8"
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