stop down

To reduce the aperture of some lens: The photographer stopped the lens down in order to increase the picture's depth of field. If your photograph is too bright, you should stop down the aperture.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Sisel	-	Yiddish
Halvor	-	Norwegian
Ljilja	-	Serbian
PacÍFica	pah-THEE-fee-kah (Spanish), pah-SEE-fee-kah (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Aristophanes	-	Ancient Greek
Simonetta	see-mo-NET-tah	Italian