In a previous speech I talked about the brightness of the objectives and the F number that indicates we are using the diaphragm. To summarize in a few words f indicates the aperture, the smaller the number, and more light will pass by allowing a gap between the foreground and background.
Here are some shots that I did and I think that explains everything better than a thousand words, the order of the aperture used is as follows: f2-f4-f5.6-f8-f11-f16-f22. As you will notice that the number will grow to change the image, what is said is that as the number f also increases the exposure time because less light passing through the goal we must increase the time of installation, then you must use a tripod if available light is low.
f2
f4
f5.6
f8
f11
f16
f22
As you can see the blur varies greatly between a light and a dark lens, be aware that targets low-end usually start from f3.5-f4 and then you can understand that with these lenses can do many things but not, for example portraits that highlight the face and not the rest unless you work in the studio with the appropriate backgrounds. The downside is that the bright lenses are expensive and therefore should be evaluated well spending in relation to the future use. Another issue to consider is that the lower the f-number the greater the chance to miss the focus, instead of the flower if there was a face with f2 I can focus the eye lashes and do not degrade the picture, so to speak .
Another thing to keep in mind is that most of the objectives to make the most of f5.6 in the sense that this value the lens aperture can resolve details as to the best values \u200b\u200blower or higher tends to lose a bit of punch, but this is a general discussion because there are lenses that do not suffer from this problem like the one I used for these shots.