Light & Composition University

Attuning Yourself with Your Camera

027.4 Lesson 04 of 08 3 quiz questions 1 assignment

A camera in automatic mode is not taking photographs — it is guessing. The guess is educated, based on sophisticated algorithms developed over decades, but it is still a guess: about what the most important subject in the frame is, about what exposure would look "normal" to an average viewer, about what colour temperature the light source has. For food photography, these guesses are systematically wrong in predictable ways, and learning to override them is the first step in attuning yourself with your camera.

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