This summer, my family and I took a trip to Yellowstone National Park. We were there for several days and did lots of hiking and sight-seeing.
I almost always shoot with my camera on “Manual Mode”—the mode where you choose all the settings yourself. BUT, on this trip, I found that I slipped the camera into aperture priority—one of the semi-automatic modes on my DSLR camera.
“What is aperture priority?” you ask!
Today I thought I would explain WHAT some of these semi-automatic modes are and WHEN you might want to use them.
All of your camera’s exposure modes are found on the dial on top of your camera. It looks like this:
