Tag: aperture

Are you getting images that look out of focus or just overall soft and not as sharp as you’d like to see? Is this happening when shooting indoors without a flash or when taking shots at night again without a flash? If so it’s very likely your shutter speed is too slow. This happens all…

Shutter speed priority (S mode) allows the photographer to manually set the shutter speed for a given exposure while the camera then automatically sets the appropriate aperture and ISO setting. Usually labelled as S on your camera, it is also shown as TV (for time value) on Canon cameras. So why use S mode? Using…

Aperture mode is often the preferred mode of the professional photographer. In aperture mode the photographer sets the preferred aperture value and the camera auto selects the proper shutter speed based on the available light. Aperture mode gives the photographer full control over one of the most important settings in photography. With it the photographer…

“P” mode stands for “professional” mode! Just kidding but seriously a lot of professionals use P mode and so should you at least for awhile. P mode is a lot like automatic mode with the exception that you get to choose when to use the flash. In other words in P mode the camera still…