Ron Leach

Exposure bracketing is a powerful technique that enables you to achieve a perfect exposure when shooting in difficult light, like complicated outdoor scenes with a wide range of tones from bright highlights to deep shadows. Today's comprehensive beginners guide comes to us from The School of Photography (TSoP)—an amazing source of online courses and a leading provider of education to schools and colleges in the UK.

Last week we featured an interesting video from one of favorite wildlife and landscape photographers who insists that your camera's Aperture Priority mode is preferable to shooting in Manual for certain situations. We're following up on that today with a quick tutorial from Vanessa Joy who demonstrates how to use shutter speed to capture images with a variety of creative effects.

We all spend hours cultivating our skills, to say nothing about the hard-earned cash we invest in the best gear we can afford. So it's often quite traumatic when we lose some or all of our work due to incorrect storage techniques or the improper care of memory cards and backup devices.

We've all heard the blather from so-called purists who insist that "you're not a real photographer unless you shoot in Manual mode."  Well, some beg to differ, including today's instructor Simon d'Entremont who explains why many pros (including himself) prefer Aperture Priority (AV) mode instead.