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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nickt" data-source="post: 600865" data-attributes="member: 4923">I'm just catching up with this thread. Everybody has given good advice. As you have noted, there are many different settings recommended here and elsewhere. In the end it's all the same. S mode and A mode along with some exposure compensation can give results just like M mode. The key is understanding the relationship of shutter, aperture and iso. Once you have that understanding locked in, the modes of how to get there will show themselves to be more of a convenience or personal preference.I find 'exposure' much like baking bread. You can alter time and temperature within reason, but you need to change both in most cases. Raise the temperature and lower the cooking time. Lower the temperature and increase the cooking time. There will be trade offs depending which parameter you favor. The same with exposure. Shutter and aperture need to 'bake' a correct exposure. Change one parameter and the other must change as well. Eventually you hit a wall and changing settings any further to favor low light will result in dark or blurry pictures because there is simply not enough light to 'bake' a good exposure. This is when it is time to raise iso. Each time you raise iso, it is a new game with shutter and aperture. With each raise in iso, your camera becomes more sensitive to light. To get back to the bread, raising iso would be like changing your dough recipe to a faster cooking mix.Your settings in your last post are good. Shutter speed is your priority here because you must be fast enough to freeze motion. Aperture is less important, but you pretty much need to be wide open since the light is low. No choices, just go wide open (lowest #) on aperture. Auto iso will raise to whatever it needs to support the shutter speed you choose. Whatever settings you use to create the above situation are fine. I would choose shutter priority with auto iso. This will keep the aperture wide open in low light. You can play with shutter speed keeping it just fast enough to prevent blur. Auto iso will rise to support this if it can.You can practice this in your home. You won't have the motion to practice with, but you can snap some pictures to get a good feel of what auto iso is doing. As you make shutter speed faster, you will see iso rise. Slow the shutter down and iso will go down. See how low you can go on shutter speed with no motion. That shutter speed is your starting point. Try this at different amounts of zoom too. The only thing you will have to worry about at the next performance is raising that shutter speed just high enough to stop the blur.</blockquote>

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