From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 2)

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Aperture priority mode

Aperture priority mode

From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 2)

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Aperture priority mode

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- We've been talking a lot about depth of field. Now we're going to put it to some use, and we've come out here to the harbor in Santa Barbara. I'm going to take a few shots and play with some depth of field control and see what kind of effects I can get. So far, the only way you've seen to change depth of field on your camera was when you were in program mode, you could use the program shift feature to switch to different combinations of shutter speed and aperture so that you could find one that maybe had an aperture that you liked. That's a fine way of working, but when you're in a situation where you know you want depth of field control, then switching to aperture priority is actually a better way to go. You've already seen shutter priority, where you set the shutter speed and the camera picked a corresponding aperture. We're doing the opposite now. In aperture priority mode, you get to choose the aperture you want to work with, and the camera will take care of shutter speed. This…

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