A few weekends ago, I saw a Groupon come across for a Chimpsy Photo Fieldtrip for Kansas City.  I’d never heard of it before but it sounded like a great opportunity to learn a bit more about photography.  Up until this point I always took photographs in Aperture priority as you only have to set the aperture and the shutter speed would be set for you.  I always just set my white balance to auto, ISO to auto, and exposure comp to 0.  My fear of Manual mode (especially for shooting an event like a wedding) is that it would take me forever and a day to get the settings set correctly!  But this Chimpy photo experience gave me a perfect safe environment to practice Manual mode and get tips from a professional photographer instructor.  It was about 100 degrees out so we were only outside for about 20 minutes but we were in a super neat urban area of Kansas City with tons of great color, flowers, architectures and more!

For all your DSLR photographers out there, do you shoot in Manual Mode?  Got any tips for adjusting your camera quickly to the best settings?