[BEGINNING PHOTOGRAPHERS] This Simple Tutorial Will Give You All The Information You Need To Understand Your Camera Modes
Are you still mostly using the Auto mode on your camera? It’s a good way to start if this is your first DSLR but sooner or later you’ll notice that your images look average and you’re not making any progress. While your camera may be able to figure out the correct exposure (well, kind of) it’s never going to achieve the same results as a person who understands and chooses his/her own settings.
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Second, and surprisingly common, are situations when you’re photographing subjects which are intrinsically light or dark, like a wedding dress or a black cat. Your camera has no idea what it’s looking at and just hopes everything is a kind of average grey tone, so this is where you need to take over to make white subjects look properly white, and black ones properly black.