Do you ever use full auto, creative auto, effect, or any preset setting?

[mmaria]

Never used auto, did use aperture and shutter speed priority

I use manual, have no idea when I started to use just that.... it's easier for me

...but have to mention also that I missed some great moments because I was in manual. Last week I was in nature and walking from one spot to another, I noticed a women standing next to a barn, because I quickly entered in totally different light conditions and wanted to capture a person, not landscape, while I was dialing other setting she noticed me and move. I missed the shot.

 

[The_Traveler]

Manual mode always seems as if it refers to .......sexual things.
Not the neat kinds with barely clothed persons of the appropriate gender beckoning from the bed, but the furtive kind where one locks the door and looks around for tissues.

In cameras, and in sexual things,I have always been Aperture preferred.

 

[robbins.photo]

When I was but a boy of 25, my young wife had bought herself a Sony a230. In my youthful ignorance and ineptitude, I just dutifully lined up that green bar with that little white line. I did OK for a while. Then it happened. I wanted to try things. I wanted to do something. I tried.... MANUAL MODE. I tried it once, just to see how it felt. It wasn't easy, and it took some effort, but it was quite a high. I didn't come back to it right away, but after a few weeks of sweats and convulsions, I had to have more MANUAL MODE. I started using it every chance I could, not even knowing about DOF or EV yet. Then, when I started learning about proper exposure, it took over my life. It was all I could think about. If I was without it for an hour, I would get headaches. A day, sweats and vomiting. I kept making up excuses just to shoot in MANUAL MODE. Then came the intervention. They showed me something. They showed me... Aperture Priority. It was as if a light shone from the heavens upon my DSLR, filling the lens and touching the sensor in... a new way.

Rehab was hard. I've relapsed a few times. I find myself still thinking about it here and there, and even did it just the other day to remind myself of how it feels. But it's not the same now. I have my family and friends to thank for showing me the light. I'm not out of the woods yet, but with continued treatment and therapy, I think I'll be OK after all.

So how hard was it to stand up at that first meeting and say, "Hi, my name is minicoop and I adjust my own histogram."

Lol

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[Overread]

When I first started I used auto modes.
full auto worked well and took decent photos; I was impressed at my own ability and what the camera could do. I also experimented and used the creative modes. Sports mode for sports shots etc... Again it did well. They didn't always work, but I put that down to limitations of the camera in the lighting (I'm in the UK we get a lot of dull cloudy dim weather).

But I also had a few books; they said use aperture priority mode instead. And as I started to learn more I realised that I wanted to do things and the auto modes were just not good enough at doing them. I wanted control and I wanted to "be the photographer". As I learned more the auto modes vanished away. Sure they do still "work" for a good exposure; but they've no creative element and no real ability to adapt to the scene and the lighting the same way I can.

Sure I still use the built in meter and such; but now I'm able to judge the scene and adapt before the shot - and also after the shot I can review and adjust if needed to get closer to what I want from the shot itself (something the camera can never do).

Now I use aperture priority as my "go to" mode and am happy to use aperture, or shutter priority and manual mode as well. Each one used in situations that benefit their use. I've not touched a single full auto or scene mode.

I did somewhat skip out program mode as well; half manual/half full auto in its design I just started learning and pushing into more direct control.

 

[SCraig]

Nope, never. I use aperture priority or shutter priority about 75% of the time and manual the other 25%. Never used full auto, any of the "Scene" modes, or any of the effects or presets.

 

[limr]

The only time I use full Auto is when I've found an old point and shoot film camera lying in a drawer somewhere and throw a roll through it just for kicks and giggles.

I've got one camera that lets me do manual or aperture priority, and I'll switch back and forth between those two modes, depending on the light/subject/which house is in retrograde. Another camera allows manual or shutter priority but I'm not overly confident that the meter is accurate, so until I change the battery in that one, it's all manual.

Otherwise, I'm all manual, all the time.

Not sure what Lew would have to say about my boyfriend considering that last statement.

 

[robbins.photo]

The only time I use full Auto is when I've found an old point and shoot film camera lying in a drawer somewhere and throw a roll through it just for kicks and giggles.

I've got one camera that lets me do manual or aperture priority, and I'll switch back and forth between those two modes, depending on the light/subject/which house is in retrograde. Another camera allows manual or shutter priority but I'm not overly confident that the meter is accurate, so until I change the battery in that one, it's all manual.

Otherwise, I'm all manual, all the time.

Not sure what Lew would have to say about my boyfriend considering that last statement.

Maybe something along the lines of "Pics, or it never happened"

Lol

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[TheFantasticG]

I hardly use full auto, creative auto, effects, or any preset on my dslr. Just curious, what about you?

Yup. When I hand the camera off to someone.

 

[rexbobcat]

I use the auto mode aperture priority, but not so much the other ones. I also use the monochrome color setting quite often as well.

But other than that, I generally stick to manual. That way I don't have to go through all my photos in post and adjust the exposures byt 1/2 stops because of the slight inconsistency of the metering.

 

[KmH]

One of the ways to tell an entry-level/consumer grade DSLR from a prosumer/pro DSLR is to look at what shooting modes the camera has.

Entry-level/consumer grade DSLRs have the 4 standard shooting modes P, A (Av), S (Tv), M, plus umpteen 'scene shooting modes'.
The Nikon D7000 has 19 'scene shooting modes'.
Prosumer/pro DLSRs have just the 4 standard shooting modes P, A (Av), S (Tv), M.

 

[MGRPhoto]

It's been years since I owned a camera that had any Auto modes. I recently picked up a NX300 and I realized I haven't been missing anything.

 

[bratkinson]

When my cameras had scene modes such as portrait, sports, etc, I tried them out and found them fairly useless compared to the 'creative zone' modes like Av, Tv, and M. Whether I use those three or even Auto is a decision based on the combination of the lighting conditions, how 'critical' is the shot (eg, shot for others to see), if it's strictly personal use (such as vacation, car show, etc), and if I'm in a 'lazy mans' mood, eg, use Auto. Some situations demand full manual to account for low light, fast/slow shutter, wide/narrow aperture (do it yourself Tv or Av), or, I'm chimping a number of shots to get what I'm looking for (typically tripod mounted, stationary subjects) and decide what I want to do as I see the results of each picture.

So, do I use modes other than M? When they give me what I want/need/feel like.

 

[tecboy]

Some of you use program mode or aperture priority mode. When you shoot indoor, do you use flash all the times?

 

[ratssass]

no

 

[Dagwood56]

It depends on what I'm doing. For ICM shots I use shutter priority, if I'm working on still life shots, manual or Aperture priority. When I'm out walking with my impatient husband or we're driving around looking for barns and have to worry about traffic, I usually go with Program shift - if I don't like what the camera chooses, I can change it if I have time.