Manual Mode VS Chris
At the very beginning of the switch from film to digital cameras I did not trust any setting other than automatic. I would shot and make adjustments later. Then I realized that I would spend too much time “fixing” my images on the computer. I forgot that when we shot on film we were absolutely manual. We also did not have the luxury of seeing what we shot as we shot it. I miss that time like you do not believe.
While taking a week long workshop in 2010 I was encouraged to shot in manual mode. The thought of it scared the you know what out of me. But after a quick talk with myself I realized that it was just a return to how I shot before. On film you would be able to make adjustments on the fly blindly and that was exciting. In any automatic setting you are allowing the camera total control and it does not know what you are looking for, only you know that.
The camera sees everything as a whole and tries it’s best to put the setting right in the middle. That is how the automatic setting works. Usually you do not want the middle. That in the end is scarier for me. If having my images the way I like them is wrong than I don’t want to be right. I made the switch to total manual mode in 2010 and have never looked back, and do not regret it. I have complete control of what my images look like and that is how I forced myself to re-learn manual mode.
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