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Light changes while hiking (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by shitterisfull@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Was on a nature hike recently. Wanted to capture things like birds, flowers, naturescapes, etc. Full tree canopy and shaded at times, wide open and sunny at other. Was a guided hike and I didn’t want to hold up the group. Ended up flipping it to Auto instead of fiddling with shutter/aperture. How does an experienced photographer handle that scenario? I feel so dirty for using it on Auto.

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[–] keetyuk@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Generally the ease of using full auto or App/Shutt priority depends on the camera you're using.

Its much MUCH easier to get the hang of them when you have separate dials for aperture/Shutter/ISO as you can very quickly change them, the difficulty tends to come in when you have one of the models where you have to do a button combination to say change ISO or something.

As with anything a lot is just down to practise.

[–] shitterisfull@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

It’s a D5300 so yeah, button combos. It’s like learning to use a Mac after decades of PC use.