>>3431025"1/__" is the shutter speed, measured as "One _____'th of a second." Obviously the faster the shutter speed, the less time it has to expose.
Faster shutter speed = Darker, but less 'movement/blurriness' in picture (from hand-shake/moving target). So, a longer shutter speed = Brighter, but hand movement/ subject movement is visible as a blurrier image.
"f-stop, F-number, Aperture, 'f/_._'/ etc." refers to the relationship of focus/dynamic range and the the size of the aperture (little hole actually letting in light onto the sensor built into the lens).
Its more complicated but these are the essentials: The number behind the "f", like the shutter speed, is a mathematical reciprocal, so the higher the denominator the smaller the aperture is. This also has an effect on how much stuff can be in focus at once.
Eg. f/3.5 and below means a larger aperture and thus lets in more amounts of light, but objects in focus can only have a few milimeters of distance between them for both to be "in focus"
eg. f/7.1 and above lets in much less light, which in turn forces a longer exposure or you risk a dark image, however there can be sometimes several meters of distance between objects and they will come out fairly sharp.
>>3430851This is a good example, as those trees directly before the building were at least 20ft
In the end, you must experiment with the extremes on your camera to figure out what changing one particular setting to its min/max will do to an image.
Photography is generally a game of balances, taking into account the weather/environment/lighting/and subject, which you then make a splitsecond decision on what combination of settings will produce the objectively "best" result.
Most cameras can compensate for situations with too much light, but very little light really sucks and forces workarounds liks tripods/long exposures/flash photography/extremely large apertures (small f/numbers like 1.6-3.0 or so)
Learn what works best for you.
