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Look at your exposure dial for the big letter ‘S’ and you’ve found Shutter Priority mode. If you’re a Canon user you’ll be hunting for ‘Tv’ on the dial. Canon calls it Time Value just to be different.Shutter Priority allows you to preset the shutter speed and the camera will pick the correct aperture for [...]

Would you like to just point and click and take decent pictures? Then use the green (or red) Auto mode. If you’d like to control your flash or have more control over your cameras menu options, Program mode is one choice for you.The big letter ‘P’ on the dial, right next to Auto mode, is [...]

Over the years, the best analogy I’ve found to describe Proper Exposure is a full bucket of water. Using a garden hose will take a long time to fill the bucket. But using a fire hose will fill it in a fraction of a second. Same end result.
Your Aperture is like the hose. Your Shutter [...]

The second part of the Exposure combination is Shutter Speed. The shutter stays closed until you decide to mash the button. It opens for a fraction of a second (usually) to let the light hit the film or sensor and capture that magic moment in time.If you remember from yesterday, the Aperture controls how much [...]

Before I talk type about Exposure modes I need to make sure you understand the two components of exposure. Every picture you take, whether film or digital, involves Aperture and Shutter Speed. The two work in tandem to allow the proper amount of light to hit the film of sensor.
Simply put, the Aperture is an [...]

What to do, what to do! There’s just SO many things to discuss in the world of digital photography. During my years of selling cameras and teaching classes I got lots of questions about exposure modes. So, I think the next series of articles needs to be about Exposure.I’ll cover shutter speed, aperture and the [...]