York in manual

So I headed off to York, with one thought on my mind. To fully use my D7000 in full manual mode.

So, my standard street setup was put in the camera, and the dial put on M. Dont get me wrong, I’ve used M many times before, but nearly always found a excuse to revert back to more familiar ground in A mode.

Initially, my mind was more on the scene, than the camera and I overexposed / underexposed some of the shots. Quickly I rememberd to balance the exposure meter.

What surprised me the most, was how much more I was thinking of the overall image. Not just raise the camera to the eye and press the shutter, but actually look at the image. Where normally I’d come away with maybe 100 shots, I came home with under 50 as I was just so much more aware of the image.

I did however find that some of my subjects had finished what they were doing, and moved before I had set the camera up. No doubt it will become quicker the more I do it, but I did get rather annoyed that, in y mind at least, I was missing shots.

I did however enjoy shooting in Manual mode. And have no doubts that I shall not move it off Manual for quite a while.

I’ll post some more shots from my recent York wander as soon as I get round to processing them.

As ever, please feel free to take a wander through my York Gallery.