#manual mode

If you're not, here's a little refresher:

You play as a piece of bread that must cross the kitchen in an effort to make it into the toaster to Become Toast. And the piece of bread you play as is operated manually with a series of complicated mechanisms that are hard to remember and difficult to approximate.

Anyway.

It's overrated.

For most of my time as a photographer, it’s been instilled in me to always shoot in manual mode. This is the mentality of plenty of photographers from older generations. Make no mistake, there’s something to be said for the lessons from these sages. But the wisdom isn’t fundamentally timeless. Today, there are zillions of situations where manual mode is overrated. Don’t just take my word for it;…