1. Wide Aperture: When a picture is taken with a wide aperture, the main subject will be in focus and the background will be blurry.

blog post by Loren Yarrington, picture taken and edited by Aaron Burden
2. Narrow Aperture: A picture taken with a narrow aperture will usually have everything, or almost everything in focus.

blog post by Loren Yarrington, aperture and shutter speed, picture taken and edited by Eberhard Grossgasteiger
3. Fast Shutter Speed: This means the lens is open for a short amount of time allowing it to stop the motion of the bike. If the shutter speed had been slow when this picture was taken, the bike and person riding it would have been blurry.

fast shutter speed, aperture and shutterspeed, blog post by Loren Yarrington, picture taken and edited by Nicolas Picard
4. Slow Shutter Speed: The clouds and water look smooth and blurred here because the lens was open for a longer period of time.

aperture and shutter speed blog post by Loren Yarrington, picture taken and edited by Osman Rana
5. A photography or editing topic I am interested in: Portraits! I have never done much with portrait photography. For some reason I have always felt more comfortable doing macro photography but I would love to do more portraits because I feel like those mean a lot to people.

Aperture and shutter speed blog post by Loren Yarrington, picture taken and edited by Christopher Campbell

These are not photos I took but photos that were on unsplash.com.