Digital cameras have revolutionized the world of photography, so that all functions available, once on “serious” reflex cameras.

The problem is that most people have grown up with Point-and-shoot cameras have very little idea of what these functions are all. After buying a good digital camera with the best intentions, they soon pass and you go automatically.

If the settings in your camera really so difficult to understand? Of course not, but it may seem just the beginning, especially when they do you explain in simple terms, one can understand.

The two settings you must understand, here and shutter opening. Aperture is the size of the hole, the light of your photo. Over the hole bigger, brighter of the exhibition. The closing time is the length of time each exhibit. Slow shutter speeds allow more light, resulting in an exhibition lighter. With the recognition of the fair balance between these two parameters, you and / or control your device, if your photo is overexposed, or the right place.

With your camera in manual mode to control the two settings. If this seems daunting, you can use the semi-automatic, priority openness and automatic diaphragm.

What are the functions semi-automatic? They let you select a parameter (or in times of closure or opening), while the camera chooses another. In this way, you can be sure, a little creativity, but with the certainty of knowing, after deduction of your camera, do you sure that exposure is correct. It is a good point midway between automatic and manual.

Start with the priority diaphragm. This feature allows you to adjust the opening on your camera, the camera will choose the closing time for you.

The opening to control the sharpness of depth (the area in front of and behind the main theme that will be brief). If you have a grand opening, reduce the sharpness of depth, if you have a small opening, you have a greater depth of field.

Of course, if you change the opening and you change the level of light in your exposure. The camera is offset by an adaptation of the shutter. So, if you use your camera to Aperture priority mode, you control the depth, but always your camera ensures that your exposure is correct.

The hook here is, we must always keep an eye on what your closing time. If it falls to a very slow speed, you need a tripod camera to eliminate vibrations.

How would it be automatic diaphragm? Here, the camera shutter and balances exposure by setting the diaphragm. This is a great, if you work with moving subjects. Sometimes you may want to be a gel with an object moving fast, filling, or create an effect of slow shutter. In the meantime, the camera is a compensation for changes in the shutter to customize the opening.

Diaphragm automatic may be a better option for some beginners. It is much easier to remain aware of their use, if your tripod. Even if the device controlling the opening, it controls the sharpness of depth, which is a general rule, is not as critical as the closing hour. They can not always exactly what you want, but you are not all catastrophic failures.

Both semi-functions appear to you the best of both worlds. It is a little creative and try your skills of photography, the camera while you High-Tech provides equipment, make sure you do not überbelichten or unterbelichten the photo. For now, it seems perfect.

That is why we must learn to work on the camera in manual mode? The answer is simple.

Aperture priority automatic diaphragm and work both on the assumption that your bed exposure is always correctly. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Indeed, it can take more intelligent than your camera.

Make sure before photographing a flower to the sun, but the substance is in the shade. This simple, it can be quite confused him by the camera. It may explain the merits, embellished with exposure and completely overexposing the flower.

In this situation, semi-automatic settings will not solve the problem. It could try a black colour of exposure (for example) the closure of the iris. The camera would simply adjust the closing time to compensate, maintenance, which it believes that good exposure.

What you need while the camera on “Manuel”. You can then two parameters and create an image is something dark, bring your flowers in full exposure.

This is not just a hypothetical exercise. Situations any time you extrajudicial think that your camera. If you understand that for the functioning of your manual, you can use the parameters of control, and debt is not your camera left for one, has received far.