You should be using Aperture Priority all the time. Agree?

[aaneiros]

Not my idea, his:

Why you should use Aperture priority mode | Photo Answers

 

[Light Artisan]

Well, he never says all the time... and I agree with 100% of what he does say. Like him, I use it 'most' of the time, there are times when shooting birds in flight that I want a minimum shutter speed of 1/500th of a second so I'll shoot in shutter priority.

However, even more useful - and something he doesn't mention - is creative exposure while in Aperture Priority mode using exposure compensation - it's like an ultra fast manual mode, I love it - and another reason to use A more often.

 

[aaneiros]

You're right. The topic should say "most of the time".

My bad

 

[altitude604]

Well, he never says all the time... and I agree with 100% of what he does say. Like him, I use it 'most' of the time, there are times when shooting birds in flight that I want a minimum shutter speed of 1/500th of a second so I'll shoot in shutter priority.

However, even more useful - and something he doesn't mention - is creative exposure while in Aperture Priority mode using exposure compensation - it's like an ultra fast manual mode, I love it - and another reason to use A more often.

precisely!

i'm in Av most of the time except when photographing Jets when i switch to Tv at around 1/800th.

 

[pgriz]

Depends. When shooting in an environment where the light is constant, I find manual gives more consistency. Same if shooting manual flash or macro. If the light is variable, and for most general photography, Av is my go-to setting, as most of my shots are relatively static, with exposure compensation as the way to fine-tune the exposure. Certainly, I like the point of the video, which is to get people to get away from all auto or Program settings if they want to control the creative expression.

 

[Light Artisan]

True, when lighting is involved I switch to manual mode, that's one of the only times I go full manual anymore.

 

[Robin Usagani]

Well, he never says all the time... and I agree with 100% of what he does say. Like him, I use it 'most' of the time, there are times when shooting birds in flight that I want a minimum shutter speed of 1/500th of a second so I'll shoot in shutter priority.

However, even more useful - and something he doesn't mention - is creative exposure while in Aperture Priority mode using exposure compensation - it's like an ultra fast manual mode, I love it - and another reason to use A more often.

precisely!

i'm in Av most of the time except when photographing Jets when i switch to Tv at around 1/800th.

You should use AV when shooting jets. You use Time Value only if you want to force your camera shutter to go slow. If you are forcing it to go fast it is hard to do because you can only open your aperture so much.

Go ahead and shoot with AV. If you see the automated shutter isnt fast enough, make your aperture bigger or higher your ISO.

 

[altitude604]

precisely!

i'm in Av most of the time except when photographing Jets when i switch to Tv at around 1/800th.

You should use AV when shooting jets. You use Time Value only if you want to force your camera shutter to go slow. If you are forcing it to go fast it is hard to do because you can only open your aperture so much.

Go ahead and shoot with AV. If you see the automated shutter isnt fast enough, make your aperture bigger or higher your ISO.

airliners.net and jetphotos.net are HUGELY picky with regards to sharpness and quality so I rarely shoot higher than ISO200 and ideally stay around f/8 for peak sharpness. i only really open up the aperture if in lower light conditions.

trying to get shots of an F-16 when she's thundering past accelerating through 190knots for take-off... you kind of have to skew the odds in your favour of getting a keeper. lol

 

[erkh]

It's everything depends, I almous never use prioryty because i use Manual, it's more flexible !

 

[Light Artisan]

Eh, the amount of flexibility I usually need can be handled by exposure compensation automatically.

I guess if I shot static scenes or shot in a studio all the time then manual mode would be more interesting, but for wildlife I prefer the speed and reliability of my camera.

 

[Robin Usagani]

precisely!

i'm in Av most of the time except when photographing Jets when i switch to Tv at around 1/800th.

You should use AV when shooting jets. You use Time Value only if you want to force your camera shutter to go slow. If you are forcing it to go fast it is hard to do because you can only open your aperture so much.

Go ahead and shoot with AV. If you see the automated shutter isnt fast enough, make your aperture bigger or higher your ISO.

airliners.net and jetphotos.net are HUGELY picky with regards to sharpness and quality so I rarely shoot higher than ISO200 and ideally stay around f/8 for peak sharpness. i only really open up the aperture if in lower light conditions.

trying to get shots of an F-16 when she's thundering past accelerating through 190knots for take-off... you kind of have to skew the odds in your favour of getting a keeper. lol

Im not trying to argue with you but now you are contradicting your self. First you said you use time value. Then you want to stay around f8. IF you want ot stay around f8 then you use AV. Better yet, if you want to stay around f8 AND around 1/800 shutter, use manual.

 

[redtippmann]

I use aperture priority most of the time but you pretty much need to use manual in the studio. But I use shutter priority if I need to stay at a certain shutter speed (for flash syncing) so I dont go into HSS.

 

[altitude604]

Im not trying to argue with you but now you are contradicting your self. First you said you use time value. Then you want to stay around f8. IF you want ot stay around f8 then you use AV. Better yet, if you want to stay around f8 AND around 1/800 shutter, use manual.

woops... i'm at work at concentrating on a bunch of stuff at once. lol

meant to qualify that as, i only use 1/800 when shooting fast movers. my wording was wrong.

 

[Village Idiot]

AV with panning work, won't work. There's other situations and most of the time I'm shooting with manual lighting, so AV wouldn't work for me most of the time.

 

[syphlix]

like everything... it depends...

that being said... for the stuff i like shooting i'm using Av prob 90% of the time, Manual 8%, and Tv 2%