Comments on: Real Photographers Shoot in Manual Mode (or not) http://blog.webartz.net/2009/06/02/real-photographers-shoot-in-manual-mode-or-not/ Random, mostly photographic jottings by Dave Wilson of Austin, Texas. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:32:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ben - EnglishPhotographer http://blog.webartz.net/2009/06/02/real-photographers-shoot-in-manual-mode-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-29190 Ben - EnglishPhotographer Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:19:29 +0000 http://blog.webartz.net/?p=552#comment-29190 Dave - Completely agree with you. Leaving the camera set to Aperture Priority may occasionally lead to poor exposure in some hastily taken photographs if your subject has obscure tones that fool the meter; but it takes a second to check the histogram. With manual, you're much more likely to miss THAT shot. Manual mode is only really useful if the camera can't capture the whole dynamic range of a scene and you want to preselect what it DOES capture. Otherwise, Aperture mode plus exposure compensation is best for photography. Ben - English Photographer Dave – Completely agree with you. Leaving the camera set to Aperture Priority may occasionally lead to poor exposure in some hastily taken photographs if your subject has obscure tones that fool the meter; but it takes a second to check the histogram. With manual, you’re much more likely to miss THAT shot. Manual mode is only really useful if the camera can’t capture the whole dynamic range of a scene and you want to preselect what it DOES capture. Otherwise, Aperture mode plus exposure compensation is best for photography.

Ben – English Photographer

]]> By: Mike Broadway – PhotoBlog » Blog Archive » Panasonic GF1 – Two Week Report http://blog.webartz.net/2009/06/02/real-photographers-shoot-in-manual-mode-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Mike Broadway – PhotoBlog » Blog Archive » Panasonic GF1 – Two Week Report Sun, 09 May 2010 19:09:25 +0000 http://blog.webartz.net/?p=552#comment-230 [...] [5/9/2010 Clarification - with the D300 I always have the camera set to under expose by 1/3 stop to avoid highlight blowouts and give richer color; when bright spots in the frame would likely burn out I will center them in the finder, lock the exposure and then recompose. Ultimately this technique is not a lot different from the manual exposure approach described by Dave Wilson in his Real Photographers Shoot in Manual Mode (or not) blog posting.] [...] [...] [5/9/2010 Clarification - with the D300 I always have the camera set to under expose by 1/3 stop to avoid highlight blowouts and give richer color; when bright spots in the frame would likely burn out I will center them in the finder, lock the exposure and then recompose. Ultimately this technique is not a lot different from the manual exposure approach described by Dave Wilson in his Real Photographers Shoot in Manual Mode (or not) blog posting.] [...]

]]> By: Real Photographers Shoot in Manual Mode | News and Views from Dave Wilson http://blog.webartz.net/2009/06/02/real-photographers-shoot-in-manual-mode-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Real Photographers Shoot in Manual Mode | News and Views from Dave Wilson Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:01:53 +0000 http://blog.webartz.net/?p=552#comment-178 [...] confess on the blog and provide some information that contradicts my earlier (and rather popular) post claiming that I’m happy to keep shooting in aperture priority and wondering why anyone would [...] [...] confess on the blog and provide some information that contradicts my earlier (and rather popular) post claiming that I’m happy to keep shooting in aperture priority and wondering why anyone would [...]

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