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Using shutter priority and aperture priority

Using shutter priority and aperture priority

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Using shutter priority and aperture priority

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Understanding the theory behind aperture, shutter speed and ISO is one thing, using them in a practical application can be quiet another. Fortunately, most digital SLRs have two modes that can really help you out if you want to get off of automatic mode and try some new settings out, and those are the aperture and shutter priority mode. What's great about these two things is that they only, or these two modes, is they only control one thing. So, right now, I'm on shutter priority mode. It's TV here. It might be S on some cameras. And all that it affects, is the shutter speed. The camera's going to take into, into account all the aperture that you need, to get a perfect exposure, so you can really get creative with motion. TV or, or S on some cameras. This shutter priority, it's such a helpful mode if you want to show, something very blurred like it's moving very quickly or freeze something perfectly still. Shutter priority is, it's like the training wheels. Taking off the training…

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