Okay learning to shoot manual. Any advantage to longer shutter

>>3129774
If you are shooting landscapes or macro where nothing is moving you really should use a tripod

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>>3129774
Diminishing returns.
If you can get the visually relevant bit of your subject in focus then you can shoot wide open, which usually means a faster shutter speed.
If you need a smaller aperture for more depth of focus then you, and the subject, will need to be able to hold still for as long as it takes... or use a flash and shutterspeed becomes much less relevant. But after about f/16-ish diffraction starts to soften your image anyway, so smaller apertures are not always best and deeeeeep DOF is not always obtainable.
Manual is slow. You almost never need to tell the camera how to expose something correctly. It's designed to do that very well all by itself, and adjust settings to suit instantly.
The human should pick one of the aspects they want to control specifically and set that one only. Anything else is special circumstances, or pretentiousness.

Try to only take what you can use. Don't be that toolbag with a backpack of shit they have to make a laborious conscious decision to even use.
Your camera should be in your hand all the time, and automatically come up to your eye if something looks even remotely interesting...and seem to fire itself at least once before you reconsider your angle etc.. Otherwise you are just another poser who is doing promising-newbie-photographer wrong.

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>>3129838
Shit picture senpai hope that's not.yours. So what your saying is shoot aperture priority?

>>3129847
Manually set your iso and shoot aperture priority

The only time to use full manual is if for some reason the camera is really fucking up the exposure and you don't have a compensation dial or if you are using a flash. If you are using strobes and stuff shoot manual

>>3129774
>Any advantage to longer shutter speeds when I'm taking pictures of things that aren't moving?
Less noise in the image.

>>3129850
>Manually set your iso and shoot aperture priority
How about auto iso and shutter priority set to 1/500th? I would use this setting in places where I want to make sure I get the shot on the first try.

>>3129774
You can use a lower ISO. Use a tripod when you're doing long exposure or landscape or anything that camera shake is an issue and you don't need to move the camera.

>>3129774
Basically, you should generally try to use as low ISO as you can get away with.
If you use a longer shutter speed, you can use a lower ISO.
Sometimes it also helps to have a wide aperture, too.

>>3129774
Longer shutter speeds are never beneficial to image quality because the longer your sensor is exposed the more electronic noise you'll get (a different kind of noise to high ISO). Technically speaking, more light entering the lens in the lowest time is universally a good thing, and long shutter speeds imply you'll be in reduced light conditions or using an ND filter. Obviously in reality you'll have to figure out your settings based on the circumstances and each situation is different so there isn't really a single rule or formula you can follow for 100% success.

Don't bother with photography class unless you're gonna focus on making connections with the other students. If all you want to do is learn photography, go out and shoot every day.