Exposure 101: How to Use Manual Mode in Practice.

So many tutorials teach the exposure triangle, but how is it actually applied in practice? Take full control of the power of M(anual) mode by training your muscle memory on this one recipe!

When I was starting out in hobby photography in my early teens, I felt that I had to cling to all forms of automatic assistance to coordinate my shots for me: I would merely point the camera, and would let auto-focus and auto-exposure (the infamous P mode, or even worse, AUTO mode, with assistance of the on-camera flash) handle the rest. After all, computers are much better at multi-tasking than we mortals are, and that dreaded M mode seemed to have way too many settings with opposite effects. Better safe than sorry… right?

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