| like you said. it varies depending on the situation, but i find most often that i use shutter priority (tv) when i'm shooting sports, specifically motorsports. i have a certain appearance that i go for when shooting bikes, and with the varying amounts of light that could occur on a track (clouds, shadows, trees, color of the pavement, etc) i have to let the camera adjust the aperture accordingly.
for more landscape or experimental stuff, i normally use manual, depending on whether or not i'm getting the specific exposure that i want and/or if the meter may be reading completely wrong.
and you're right, when shooting things like portraits, i'm more focused on the depth of field, which you control with the aperture, as opposed to shutterspeed (excluding special situations, ie low light, special effects, etc). |