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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pullmyfinger" data-source="post: 164819" data-attributes="member: 13217">I use M Mode if I have time to take multiple pictures, and want to made adjustments to shutter speed and aperture; directly adjusting exposure by changing both of these.As has been mentioned above, I used A Priority most often because depth of field is often what I am most interested in controlling while walking around taking shots.I don't use S Priority as much. When I do it's because I want to affect the look of surface water; such as outgoing or incoming tides. But I usually use M Mode, along with ISO adjustments, and juggle them with exposure time to get the look I'm after.I do use P Mode sometimes. For example, if I am walking in a bamboo forest near my apartment where there is changing light along with light and dark areas. I will just use spot metering, and meter different areas and lock that in. Then I recompose and take whatever shot I want and adjust exposure from there. I find this helps if I am taking shots looking up, and alternating taking shots in different directions. I guess metering in different areas is another way of "bracketing" for lack of a better term. Or if I am taking pictures indoors with variable lighting in different rooms. Of course spot metering works in the other modes, but I have been experimenting with P Mode lately, as a way to give priority to metering.Is anybody else doing this with P-Mode?Cheers,Mitch</blockquote>