Are you saying you’re accepting paid work but don’t actually know how to use the basics of your camera?!?

That sounds dodgy as fuck.

I can’t imagine turning up for a date with some bloke who I’ve never met before , who has a camera and then starts to take photos of me. Its creepy as fuck.

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Of course they’re gatekeeping, its their income!

There are plenty of resources out there explaining how to get into gig photography.

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Bear in mind a lot of people who scratch a living at it haven’t been doing it for a single year, but many many many years, so why are you expecting them to give up their hard earned knowledge to some random stranger from the internet? Talk about delusional and self important.

Generally the ease of using full auto or App/Shutt priority depends on the camera you’re using.

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Its much MUCH easier to get the hang of them when you have separate dials for aperture/Shutter/ISO as you can very quickly change them, the difficulty tends to come in when you have one of the models where you have to do a button combination to say change ISO or something.

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As with anything a lot is just down to practise.

Sorry, but that’s nothing to do with gatekeeping, especially when there are a million and one tutorials on the internet helping you to get the best out of your camera, all it takes is a is a little bit of your time.

Manual mode is FAR superior to auto. You’re getting the images YOU want, not the photos the camera thinks are a perfect exposure.

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Before writing crap like that down go and read up on what a camera thinks a perfect exposure is and how it works it out.

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Also, what’s all this “pro’s know how to” bullshit… Knowing how to use your camera has nothing to do with being a professional.