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Today’s tip shared by AdoramaTV’s favorite – photographer David Bergman is on how to make aperture priority mode more useful – “You probably know that I’m a big proponent of shooting in full manual exposure mode. It gives you total control over your images and doesn’t leave anything to chance in the camera. However there are times when you might want the cameras help just a little bit… for example, in a fast-moving situation where you’re going in and out of extremely different lighting you could ask the camera to make some quick exposure decisions for you. In that case aperture priority is usually the way to go. It’s represent as an A or AV on your camera.”
“Controlling your aperture allows you to decide how wide or narrow you want your depth of field to be. But anytime you give your camera control of your exposure there are consequences. Let’s say you’re shooting outdoors you have your ISO low to keep image quality high. The camera will pick a pretty fast shutter speed, because there’s plenty of light, but once you step inside unless you remember to manually adjust your ISO, your shutter speed could be too slow and you’ll have blurry photos. Nobody wants that! The answer for this problem is a feature called auto ISO.”
“Most modern cameras have it. The beauty of auto ISO is that you can set the maximum ISO and minimum shutter speed the camera is allowed to use, so maybe you set your max ISO at 8000 or whatever you think the highest usable amount is for you particular camera, and your minimum shutter speed at let’s say 250th of a second.”
“Now when you go inside on aperture priority the camera will still lower your shutter speed for the darker situation first, but only until it gets to that set 250th of a second. If it still needs more light it’ll start to raise your ISO at that point, it’s the best of both worlds.”
“At the end of the day I still recommend shooting on manual. But if you don’t want to think and have to move fast you can use aperture priority to let your camera help you out a little bit. But remember to use auto ISO so your camera doesn’t get totally out of control.”
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