6. USE APERTURE PRIORITY EXPOSURE MODE
TO GAIN AS much control as possible over the design elements of your portraits, it’s best to use the creative exposure modes. These include Programmed Exposure, Shutter Speed Priority, Aperture Priority, and Manual. To be even more specific, I suggest sticking to only two of these for the majority of your portrait work: Aperture Priority and Manual (Figure 6.1).
Although it’s not in this book’s purview to go over how exposure is achieved, having a working knowledge of this concept is extremely helpful in order to adequately operate the camera in Aperture Priority and Manual exposure modes. The camera settings ...
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