Contrary to what everyone is saying knowing how to use your camera in Manual Mode IS the ultimate hack to photography!

The fastest way to enjoying photography without frustration or confusion is to understand how the camera works so you can make it do what you want it to do. And the only way to do that is to learn how to use your camera in Manual Mode. Why? Because it's the only mode where you can control the components independently that are responsible for every photograph taken. As long you keep letting the camera do it automatically you will always be frustrated. 

You have to take control of the camera.

Now before you gasp. Let me ask you this. Have you ever actually tried to learn it from someone that uses manual mode full time and can show you how to do it yourself on a camera? Or have you only tried to learn it through the typical amateurs online posing as experts pushing "Cheat sheets", diagrams on paper, and cliche' example shots? 

Ever notice they never show you live on a camera how to do it yourself? They just show you example shots? That's because most of the information being taught and shared is inaccurate, explained completely wrong, filled with tons of bloat and unnecessary info and leaves out important information you have to know for it to all make sense. And, it's being taught by people that don't know what they are talking about. The reason why they can't show you is because they don't know how.

Now for the really scary part. You have no way of knowing if what they are saying is even correct or not. So you lose a lot of precious time acquiring information that's not correct and presented by people that don't know what they are talking about. And you'll never know the difference until you get the right information taught to you by someone that really knows what they are talking about. Until then, you're always going to feel confused, frustrated and lost because you can't make wrong info, explained by people that don't know what they are talking about, make sense. 

Think about anything else in life like this. If someone truly knows what they are talking about they can easily explain it in a way that's that's clear and easy to understand. Even complex matters like the way Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about the universe and physics. 

But then there are people that make things up, guess, or avoid proving what they say because they can't. 

When people lie to us or make things up we are always frustrated and confused because the information doesn't make sense, is too confusing to understand, or just plane wrong. 

So the bottom line is this. Why keep trying to learn photography the same way, with the same info (we know doesn't work), from the same types of people that can't explain it in a way that you can use? Information you can't use is useless and a waste of time. 

Learning how the camera works is no different than anything else. If after hearing someone explain it, you have no idea what's going on and you can't put it to use immediately, they either don't know what they are talking about or they don't know the topic well enough to be teaching it.

As long as the information is wrong or explained in a way that doesn't make sense you will always feel bad, confused, and frustrated.   

It's all right on the camera and there's only 3 things you need to control.

Did you know all the information you need to use a digital camera in manual mode is displayed right on the camera? All you have to do is know how to read it and know how to adjust the dials to get the results you want. 

The camera is just a tool designed for the average consumer to create photographs. And almost all of them have manual mode. Yes, all of them. Even all the entry level DSLR and mirrorless lines of camera's that start at just $300 all have a manual mode. It's not an expert mode just designated to certain high end levels of cameras. It's on all of them.

Manual is just full control mode. It's not expert mode. Experts use manual for the control and ease of use. In any other mode the camera is trying to control it for you working against what you want it to do. 

Do you know what a camera is doing in auto mode? Or any of the other semi-auto modes? Wouldn't that be helpful to know?

By learning manual mode you're also learning exactly what the camera is doing in any auto mode.

Imagine your car randomly speeding up or slamming on the break or controlling the speed you want to go. Wouldn't that be frustrating? That's exactly what's happening in any auto mode. 

By knowing how the components of the camera work to create a photograph you'll be able to control it to get the results you want. Just like driving a car. 

Do you feel like you can control your car fast enough for everything that happens on the road no matter how fast and last minute it happens? Yeah. You always have. Since day one. So why do think you can't do it fast enough manually with a camera? Because the people that want to sell you stuff you don't need, and don't know how it works, have made you believe that. 

 

Until you get the right information (the real facts about each component), taught to you by someone that truly knows what they're talking about, and can explain it to you in a way that's clear and easy to understand, you may never truly get to enjoy photography. 

*Information you can't use is pointless and a waste of your valuable, precious time you'll never get back.

Professional photographers use Manual because it's the fastest and gives us full control.

Amateurs are always saying that manual mode is only for pros or that it's too slow, confusing, and unnecessary. This is 100% false. Us pros don't use any mode, tool, or approach that's slow or difficult. We need speed, efficiency and maximum control for the results we want. 

You should be asking yourself why the pros don't use auto modes if they're faster? The only ones that claim to be pros and don't use manual mode or are the ones that don't know how to use manual mode. Manual is by far the fastest and easiest and absolutely necessary to get the results you want.

You have to be able to control your Aperture, Shutter, and ISO separately to get the results you want and it's very easy to do once you know what they do and how to use them. It only seems difficult and confusing because the people explaining it make it that way. 

Did you know there's only 3 components you ever have to adjust to create any photograph you want and most of the time you are only adjusting 1 or two? 

Have you ever seen a truly experienced professional photographer stressed out because of technical reasons? Watch a National Geographic photographer or a sports photographer at an NFL or NBA game. Do they look stressed or flustered because they are missing shots due to the camera being slow or because the settings are difficult and slow to change? No, because they're not and once you know how to use the camera you can use it anywhere under any pressure or situation because it's super fast and easy. 

The fundamentals of using the camera in every situation are always the same. Plus, you're not changing your settings all the time either like you've been made to believe. Many times once your settings are set you don't even have to change them for an entire shoot. You're just adjusting the zoom on a zoom lens, the focus point, or your framing and composition. Which you are already doing with your cell phone.

The old way of learning photography doesn't work. 

Almost everyone has a camera nowadays, if not multiple cameras per household, yet almost everyone is confused and lost about understanding how a camera works and how to use it to create the images they want. That's hundreds of millions of people just in the US alone trying to make the same info taught the same way for decades and it's still too confusing for anyone to learn from. 

What does that tell you? That that info, taught the way it's been taught, does not work! It's time for a new method and approach taught by someone that truly knows the facts and has created a new method of teaching it and a new way of explaining it. 

Introducing the "S.I.M.P.L.E Method".

My brand new proprietary S.I.M.P.L.E (Shooting In Manual Photography Learned Easily™) Method that strips out all the old outdated confusing info, clears up all the wrong info and delivers it to you in a simple, clear, step-by-step way so you can easily understand it and start applying it right away. 

It clearly explains each component that makes up every photograph (Aperture, Shutter, and ISO) and presents it to you in a very well thought out way that will create the foundation for every photograph you will ever take. Nothing to memorize, download, print or carry around for reference.

If you're ready to be taught the right way, with the right information, that includes all the missing information (you have to know for it to all make sense) so you can start creating the images you've always dreamed you could, then I invite you to join the...