• pancakes@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    As someone who occasionally does professional photography/ filming, the auto setting on your camera is fine if you’re just snapping pics. Where you’d want manual is if you were taking a larger series of photos and wanted to apply the same effects/ processing to the batch.

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      17 hours ago

      As someone who never did photography professionally but as a hobby, I learned the manual settings when automatic failed to take a good photo.

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        12 hours ago

        You’re totally right, but I would also say this is a great point for understanding/ learning photo editing software. More as a tool in your pocket so that when you don’t get a nice photo, you know what is or isn’t fixable.