• pancakes
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    9 days ago

    As someone who occasionally does professional photography/ filming, the auto setting on your camera is fine if you’re just snapping pics. Where you’d want manual is if you were taking a larger series of photos and wanted to apply the same effects/ processing to the batch.

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      9 days ago

      As someone who never did photography professionally but as a hobby, I learned the manual settings when automatic failed to take a good photo.

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        9 days ago

        You’re totally right, but I would also say this is a great point for understanding/ learning photo editing software. More as a tool in your pocket so that when you don’t get a nice photo, you know what is or isn’t fixable.

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      9 days ago

      the automatic setting might give you 1/30 of a second when photographing fast moving animals or 1/500 with aperture 2.8 when photographing landscapes, neither of which will give you good photos :/

      Aperture, shutter speed and ISO aren’t very hard to understand and applying them correctly will give you a lot better photos.

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        There is also semiautomatic modes which allow you to specify part of that triad without needing to exactly know how best to adjust all three.

        I figure it depends mostly how much time you have to take your shot. Though im not sure how fast someone can get with manual mode with practice.

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        9 days ago

        Agreed! I was surprised how easy it is to learn the basics, it really does help if you want to get better photos.

        Fwiw, the book Understanding Exposure was a nice entrance to photography basics for me… Really helped nail down what aperture, shutter speed, and ISO are for…