John Landolfi wrote: It isn't the case that you need to shoot in a particular shooting mode for a given subject. Depending on your goals, for instance:
For a horse race, if you want to stop the horse's motion, you may want a high shutter speed, and you might choose Shutter Priority to set and mantain the speed you chose. But, if you wanted to show an in-focus background behind a moving horse, you might want a small aperture to maximize depth of field, and you would choose Aperture Priority to mantain your chosen aperture.
And after some experimentation, you might use Manual to obtain a combination of the two shots above, using the shutter from the first and the aperture from the second.
Does that help?
Stic wrote: A horse race would be similar to shooting cars drifting or racing.
I used to use speed priority to get the exact speed I wanted (in the case of drift, approx 1/80th (to blur the background and focus on the vehicle):
Hot Rod Dirt Track Racing II by Flickr Sucks , on Flickr
Hannah Williams wrote:
Stic wrote: A horse race would be similar to shooting cars drifting or racing.
I used to use speed priority to get the exact speed I wanted (in the case of drift, approx 1/80th (to blur the background and focus on the vehicle):
Hot Rod Dirt Track Racing II by Flickr Sucks , on Flickr
This is a really good shot.
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