How many of you advanced or professional photographers follow this?

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pedroj

Senior Member
8 pages no I didn't read it but I would say he would most probably be right...

Some one said to me once aperture priority...I found it in the manual and read about it with the camera and tried different things and shot in that mode till I understood more about it...

The moral of this is don't try everything at once...Bight off little bits and go from there..
 
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cbg

Senior Member
I use Aperature priority almost exclusively unless I'm shooting birds if flight, then I'll use Shutter priority to make sure I can keep the shutter speed high enough to stop movement.

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Dave_W

The Dude
If I were you and still getting my settings on a camera, I would leave it in A-mode 99% of the time. And then after you get your bearings and develop preferences for your photography then turn the dial to M-mode.
 
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silvercreek

Senior Member
Mojo Dave said:
If I were you and still getting my settings on a camera, I would leave it in A-mode 99% of the time. And then after you get your bearings and develop preferences for your photography then turn the dial to M-mode.
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That's good advice and I plan on doing just that. Theinformation I posted above is just reading material for me. It helps me have abetter understanding about how a digital camera works and some of the causesand effects.
 
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WhiteLight

Senior Member
I think once you get used to A priority mode, the M mode becomes quite easy.
Of course, since there's no one given setting & you can achieve correct exposure with a number of combinations, playing around in the M mode makes it really fun :)
 
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Eye-level

Banned
I think most photographers nowadays use aperture mode when out and about and snapping. The equipment just lends itself to doing this. Manual mode is for hardheaded people like me. :)
 
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RickSawThat

Senior Member
I use S (shutter speed mode) 90% of the time. I'm shooting people who are moving so I need to stop the movement. I try to shoot at 1/250th of a sec or faster and adjust so my aperture is about f/5.6 and the fastest shutter speed I can get with that. Blurred backgrounds and sharp people and ISO adjustments to get there..... that's my goal.
 
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Billy Y.

Senior Member
I tend to use Aperature priority most of the time as that is what allows you control over your depth of field. For long exposures I use Manual mode, it is easier to quickly dial in overexposure (it seems the in camera meter tends to underexpose long exposures) or maybe there is some sort of digital reciprocity failure happening. Like Rick said though it is dependent on what you are shooting - if it is moving then your shutter speed setting is the way to go.
 
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Dave_W

The Dude
RickSawThat said:
I use S (shutter speed mode) 90% of the time. I'm shooting people who are moving so I need to stop the movement. I try to shoot at 1/250th of a sec or faster and adjust so my aperture is about f/5.6 and the fastest shutter speed I can get with that. Blurred backgrounds and sharp people and ISO adjustments to get there..... that's my goal.
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Wouldn't using auto-ISO with minimum 1/250 sec be a little easier or no?
 
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Dave_W

The Dude
Billy Y. said:
I tend to use Aperature priority most of the time as that is what allows you control over your depth of field. For long exposures I use Manual mode, it is easier to quickly dial in overexposure (it seems the in camera meter tends to underexpose long exposures) or maybe there is some sort of digital reciprocity failure happening. Like Rick said though it is dependent on what you are shooting - if it is moving then your shutter speed setting is the way to go.
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I do the exact same thing. I love the heck out of the shooting menu bank and costume settings bank. And with the 4 different settings on each gives you a total of 8 individual settings that you can quickly flip to and have all your settings ready to go. It's a lot like the U1 and U2 on the D7k only on steroids.

Correction - it gives you 16 individual settings.
 
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RickSawThat

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Mojo Dave said:
Wouldn't using auto-ISO with minimum 1/250 sec be a little easier or no?
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That's mostly what I do but I want to make sure I don't go too high with the ISO so I'll take over control of the ISO too sometimes.... When I do that I start to compensate in exposure and shoot at +.7 to +1.3 in terms of exposure. I can fix whatever I need to in PP at that point.
 
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