i’ve had several inquires for another Basic Photography Seminar which i may do again

BUT

in the meantime

why don’t i share some basic information about photography here.?.

first:

lets get you to stop photographing everything on AUTO. scary, I know. but trust me IT WILL GET EASIER and you may even thank me later ( i didn’t say NOW, but later: wink wink)

when i first started interning for a wedding photographer i was told to shoot on aperture priority or shutter priority (while this was helpful to start) it became more of a “crutch” than anything else.

i didn’t take the time to learn all of my camera settings- bad idea! i relied completely on the camera to think for me.

it’s a camera. it can’t think for me.

i put my camera on manual mode and have never looked back.

Soooo, what do you need to know when you shoot manually? a lot.

BUT

let’s start with the basics.

your camera has a dial at the top of it (this is a photo of mine)

for the sake of this lesson lets just look at 3 of the letters and what they mean

M= Manual Mode ( you control all of the settings on your camera)

AV= Aperture Priority (you control the aperture of your camera, while the camera controls everything else)

TV= Shutter Priority (you control the shutter of your camera, while the camera controls everything else)

good, now i know for sure that you are on manual mode