technical Archives - Photo Tips, Creative Photography + Travel Guides - The Wandering Lens Photo Tips and Travel Guides for Photographers - Photography Locations + Photogenic Experiences Sun, 03 Jul 2022 09:38:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.thewanderinglens.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-olympus-housing-32x32.jpg technical Archives - Photo Tips, Creative Photography + Travel Guides - The Wandering Lens 32 32 The Secret Setting: Aperture Priority Mode https://www.thewanderinglens.com/learn-photography-aperture-priority/ https://www.thewanderinglens.com/learn-photography-aperture-priority/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:32:38 +0000 http://www.thewanderinglens.com/?p=5905 Aperture Priority – It’s Okay to NOT use Manual Mode! When you are learning photography two words sound about as daunting as jumping out of a plane. Manual Mode. A lot of professional photographers will shout from the rooftops about the benefits of using manual mode on your camera. And yes, shooting in manual means you can control every little bit of the image, it’s also more time consuming and sometimes far too fiddly for a candid moment. I’m going to let you in on one of my secrets, please don’t judge. I love to photograph using Aperture Priority mode. There I said it. More often than not, especially when travelling I find myself jumping over to Aperture Priority mode and clicking away happily. It’s actually something I’ve used throughout my career shooting weddings, events, landscapes and underwater. Typically I flick over to manual for long exposures, astrophotography and anything you have the time to set up and capture. Aperture Priority allows you to control your settings but you are also working with the camera and its intelligence (I like to assume my camera is smart and knows what it is doing). Much less pressure than manual mode! You can...

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