Camera settings aren’t important because your camera is a tool and camera settings info won’t give much information to the viewer. To take good photos you need to master composition and light, then you will be able to take good pictures even in auto mode.
To set the right exposure you need to learn how to use a camera practically. After that, you will be able to quickly adjust the shutter speed and aperture. Knowing what settings another photographer used won’t help much unless it’s a certain technique.
Knowing camera settings can be necessary when you shoot using certain techniques like:
Why do people share camera settings info?
But let’s return to the topic. This is rather a question than a post describing something.
I have been checking some Facebook groups, (to be honest, I almost never used Facebook) and I have seen that it’s even a requirement in some groups to include camera settings info. Really. When you post an image there you should write this useless information. Although I have never seen professionals sharing camera settings info, on Facebook groups people do that. I can (hardy but I can) understand when people share the model of the camera and lens. Although I have seen awful pictures shot on cameras 2 times more expensive than mine and vice versa good pictures on bad cameras.
When you masterly use exposure, it won’t be showing much information
When you have a certain idea you can capture anything in very different ways. You can turn day into night and night into day, using certain settings in your camera. That’s why the settings of your camera won’t give much information.
Who are the people who share that?
So why can’t these people simply show their photos? What do these people do with this info? It’s a strange phenomenon, a whole society of people shares information that won’t make almost any difference. For example, if you see camera settings under my pictures in this post, what does it give you? Does it help you in any way?
This is indeed a mystery but somehow I feel like these people just want to be perceived as experts not being experts themselves. Some of the people who share this info are probably beginners who want to understand what settings to use. But I don’t think that this info is helpful
This information would be too basic and useless for anyone who is doing photography actively for a long time. Any experienced photographer can set the needed settings in any lighting conditions.
What do you think about that?
If you’d like to level up your skills in photography check out this post:
Top 10 Ways To Improve Photography Skills. Learn Photography Faster
and this one too:
How To Learn Black And White Photography. Rocket Your Photography Skills
Learning black and white photography will help you to learn the light in photography overall, it’s more important than the camera settings info.
In the end, let me leave you some useless information…
