If manual had a team, I'd be on it.
Manual is my favorite camera setting to use.
Why? Because unlike auto and many other camera setting/modes/whatever you want to call it, manual gives the photographer so much more to work with. The photographer has control of two key components in determining how (and how well) the photo is taken.
The shutter speed and the aperture.
Now, I don't know everything about photography, but something I do know is manual is one of the best modes (if not the best) mode that a photographer can know how to use. It puts the photographer in control. You control how much light is let in. You control how fast that shutter clicks. You do.
And after all, if you're a photographer, that's what you should do, right? It's your photo that comes out when you click that button. Own it even more by controlling how that's determined. Don't let the camera's brain determine if you need flash or not. (You might not, in reality. Or you might.)
Plus, by knowing how to and utilizing manual, photographers are getting more bang for their buck by knowing how to use as much of the camera's functions to their advantage. I've learned this personally from having a DSLR.
With the amount of money those cameras cost, I want to know how to use everything on that camera. From why my videos cut off (got it figured out and now I need to go memory card shopping) to how I can format my memory card (incredibly easy to figure out--just don't do it if you haven't saved what's on your card).
Now I like auto. Really, I do. It's helped me out in my continual learning process even though I despise to use it. And even though I despise it, I do use it (with great reluctance on very rare occasions).
But manual is what I really use. All the time. And there really is a clear difference between photos taken in manual and auto. I have some examples below (the manual photo is on the left and the photo taken with auto is on the right).
The photos taken with manual look much more natural and it doesn't have the harsh flash that happened when I used auto. (Now the flash doesn't pop up all the time on auto, it depends.)
The ability to control the quality of photos and give them a much more crisp, natural look gives manual the win in my book.
Manual is my favorite camera setting to use.
Why? Because unlike auto and many other camera setting/modes/whatever you want to call it, manual gives the photographer so much more to work with. The photographer has control of two key components in determining how (and how well) the photo is taken.
The shutter speed and the aperture.
Now, I don't know everything about photography, but something I do know is manual is one of the best modes (if not the best) mode that a photographer can know how to use. It puts the photographer in control. You control how much light is let in. You control how fast that shutter clicks. You do.
And after all, if you're a photographer, that's what you should do, right? It's your photo that comes out when you click that button. Own it even more by controlling how that's determined. Don't let the camera's brain determine if you need flash or not. (You might not, in reality. Or you might.)
Plus, by knowing how to and utilizing manual, photographers are getting more bang for their buck by knowing how to use as much of the camera's functions to their advantage. I've learned this personally from having a DSLR.
With the amount of money those cameras cost, I want to know how to use everything on that camera. From why my videos cut off (got it figured out and now I need to go memory card shopping) to how I can format my memory card (incredibly easy to figure out--just don't do it if you haven't saved what's on your card).
Now I like auto. Really, I do. It's helped me out in my continual learning process even though I despise to use it. And even though I despise it, I do use it (with great reluctance on very rare occasions).
But manual is what I really use. All the time. And there really is a clear difference between photos taken in manual and auto. I have some examples below (the manual photo is on the left and the photo taken with auto is on the right).
The photos taken with manual look much more natural and it doesn't have the harsh flash that happened when I used auto. (Now the flash doesn't pop up all the time on auto, it depends.)
The ability to control the quality of photos and give them a much more crisp, natural look gives manual the win in my book.
P.S. No, I don't hate flash. Sometimes an external flash is completely necessary (i.e. low light situations). I just want to not have control over the flash popping up.
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