5 Reasons to shoot in Manual Mode

1. No Harsh flash.

When you shoot in “auto” your camera chooses all your settings for you. If there is low
lighting the camera decides to pop up the flash and add more lighting. Unfortunately, this lighting is often extremely unflattering to your subjects and leaves you with a picture of washed out skin, closed eyes, or red eyes.

 2. You choose your focal point.

 One of my favorite pictures was a baby playing with a toy but the focus was on the toy not the baby. I loved it! Now, I realize that all you have to do is choose your focal point and have a low aperture and I, too, could achieve those photos!

3. Get wonderful bokeh and blurry backgrounds

 Bokeh? What’s that? A quick explanation would be the little circles of light in the blurry
background of pictures. Photographers LOVE bokeh (pronounced bo-kuh – like mocha…at least that is how I say it :O) Besides bokeh, you can also get those professional looking blurry backgrounds. The amount of blurry background you get depends on your aperture. I love a photo that captures the child and everything in the background is blurred out, all your focus is on that adorable face!

 4. Control over the amount of light in your picture

 This is such a fun thing about manual. I just finished a workshop that taught me all about silhouettes and back-lighting. Both of these seemed like the biggest challenges until I learned it was just a matter of getting your settings right and controlling the amount of light in your photo. If you want a photo with pretty back-lighting you let in a lot more light. However, if you want dark silhouettes that pop against your backgrounds you are going to change your settings for your subjects to be underexposed.

 5. Play with your creativity.

The possibilities are ENDLESS! There is so much you can do with your camera when shooting in manual mode.
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