rlemert
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Several people here have, at one time or another, mentioned that they always shoot in full manual mode. I'm wondering what they really mean by this, because I'm having a hard time with everyone having calibrated eyeballs that let them set ISO, shutter, and aperture all from scratch.
Here's how I think you do it.
ISO is probably set at the start of your shoot based on ambient conditions - I can see how one could generate some rules of thumb for this as they gain experience. Once set, ISO is left alone for the rest of the shoot unless conditions and/or locations change.
For shutter speed and aperture, though, I'm suspecting that what you're really doing is a 'guided' manual. In other words you're using your camera's built in metering to guide you to an appropriate combination of these parameters for current conditions. If you want to control DoF, for example, you might set a target aperture and then adjust the shutter based on what the meter says. For action shots, you might reverse the priorities.
If this is how you do it, what advantage does this approach offer over either aperture priority or shutter priority?
If this is not what you do, then how do you do it?
Here's how I think you do it.
ISO is probably set at the start of your shoot based on ambient conditions - I can see how one could generate some rules of thumb for this as they gain experience. Once set, ISO is left alone for the rest of the shoot unless conditions and/or locations change.
For shutter speed and aperture, though, I'm suspecting that what you're really doing is a 'guided' manual. In other words you're using your camera's built in metering to guide you to an appropriate combination of these parameters for current conditions. If you want to control DoF, for example, you might set a target aperture and then adjust the shutter based on what the meter says. For action shots, you might reverse the priorities.
If this is how you do it, what advantage does this approach offer over either aperture priority or shutter priority?
If this is not what you do, then how do you do it?