What mode?

[mbg0333]

What mode does everyone shoot on?

Portraits...would more than likely be Aperature Priority

Sports.... Shutter Priority

What about weddings?

When does using manual work the best?

What would be wrong with using the sports mode vs shutter priority?

Lots of little questions...hoping for lots of little answers!

Thanks!

[loana0320]

I strated at manual.. than it go tooc hallenging for me with moving toddlers and moved to av mode.. been shoooting av mode for about a year and a half

[Dakinetx]

Manual!
ONLY mode that gives me 100% control over image I wish to produce.

[kenw]

the "modes" are basically a half-step up from full auto. They still do all the thinking for you, and can make some awful assumptions doing so. For example, the "sports" mode has a single pre-determined shutter speed, when in fact you might want something different to compensate for low light or such.

Not all "sports" need a shutter of 1/250 (assuming that's what the camera assumes). Some might need 1/350. Baseball at the plate might need 1/500, but an outfielder may only need 1/150.

In a nutshell:

if you care MORE about freezing the action, Tv.
if you care MORE about controlling DoF and it is likely that nothing will move anyway, Av.

realize that the vast bulk of my experience is without flash, flash changes everything.

[Wes]

I primarily shoot sports and portraits. Almost 99% of the time I shoot everything in totally manual mode. It forces me to really survey a scene, be it sports or portraits, and think about what effect I want and how I'm going to expose it. About the only thing that I leave in auto mode on the camera is the lens, and even then I usually find occasion to flip over to manual focus for certain things.

[Fotographie-Junge]

Aperature Priority most of the time, sometimes Manual..whichever suits the moment and subject.

[ttusa]

manual, manual, and manual

[Matt_G]

Sports- Manual when lighting is consistent ....AV otherwise-

center or evaluative metering

[groovyone]

I use Aperature Priority most of the time.

[Cope]

Usually shoot Aperture, but I started using Manual for the few weddings I have shot, as well as similar events.

[tdent1]

Av 75%, manual 20%, and Tv 5%.

[CincoJoe]

Manual most of the time unless I'm just shooting quick shots of the kids I'll put in Aperture.

[KJ Smith]

If you are shooting with Canon and you understand the law of reciprocity, it makes no difference.

Av, Tv, P are all the same.

If you are in Av when you change the aperture, the camera will reset to the "correct" shutter. So in Av you can still change the shutter by changing the aperture,

Note : this does not change the exposure

If you are in Tv when you change the shutter, the camera will reset to the the "correct" aperture. So in Tv you can still change the aperture by changing the shutter.

Note : this does not change the exposure

Most Canons have what is called Shift-able Program.
If you use the scroll wheel above the shutter release you will change the settings, just like the other two. So you still control both.

Note : this does not change the exposure

Now that I said all that, I usually use Tv, and the exposure compensation wheel on the back.

Why Tv ? I always set my shutter to the slowest speed I can hand hold the attached lens.
The shutter speed is then "locked" where I want it and the aperture can change to correct the exposure.

Does that make sense ? Someone speak up if I missed something.

I do this in case something just kinda jumps up.

Kevin

[snmichaels]

Av most of the time for me. Manual for night shots.

[mbg0333]

So in manual how would one spot meter something for correct exposure and recompose the frame?