New photographers don’t have to go straight from auto to full manual mode without training wheels. Shutter priority mode is one of three semi-auto mode that mixes the best of auto and manual together.

Your dSLR's (or ILC's, or enthusiast compact's) Shutter-priority mode is perfect when you care about shutter speed beyond all else. Here's what you need to know to use it. Lori Grunin Senior Editor / ...

Attend any digital photography workshop, and inevitably you'll hear questions about digital . Photographers want to know: How are aperture priority and shutter priority modes different What does the ...

In part one of this series you kicked your digital SLR camera's auto mode to the curb with the help of program mode. In doing so, you learned to control the flash, the ISO value, and the white balance ...

Shutter speed is an essential tool that can be used to capture motion in different ways. As a subject, water is often recorded as a blurry entity with long exposures to convey an idea of movement. But ...

Have you ever wondered why still photography is thriving even though it’s so easy to capture video with our smartphones. I’d say it’s because there’s something endearing in the knowledge that a photo ...

Not all cameras have an aperture-priority mode. If yours has one, you should use it. All the time. It'll give you more control over the look of your photos without having to dive into the complexities ...

As you might expect, you use Aperture-priority mode when you need to control the size of the opening through which light travels to reach the sensor -- usually to affect the depth of field -- but ...