Creative Exposure Modes

Rick Sammon

Published April 3, 2007
Updated June 30, 2016

Now let’s take a look at creative exposure modes. Except for the Manual mode, which I used for this picture of an iceberg in Antarctica, creative exposure modes are automatic—but not fully automatic. You can still take control and be creative.

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