The A on your camera’s mode dial is not for Amateur (and the P is not for Professional, but that’s another story). Aperture priority mode, designated by A or Av on the camera’s mode dial, blends the ...

Not all cameras have an aperture-priority mode. If yours has one, you should use it. All the time. It'll give you more control over the look of your photos without having to dive into the complexities ...

As you might expect, you use Aperture-priority mode when you need to control the size of the opening through which light travels to reach the sensor -- usually to affect the depth of field -- but ...

Manual exposure isn’t a quick fix. Switch for the wrong reason and it’ll make your photos worse, not better! But if you long to be more active in your creative decision making, there’s a halfway house ...

Digital Camera World and other experts are challenging the belief that manual mode defines serious photography. They highlight that semi-automatic modes like aperture and shutter priority can offer ...

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Welcome to another edition of Let’s Talk Photography! Previously, I mentioned the exposure triangle and the three functions of the camera that make up that triangle; Shutter Speed, Aperture, and ISO.

So you've got a new camera and are probably getting some great shots. But if your mode dial is still pointing at Auto, you probably have a pang of guilt that you're not making the most of your camera ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Canon EOS SOS. Flexible Priority, or Fv mode, was the first significant new creative zone exposure mode in decades. Introduced ...