I've been shooting for many years, and rarely use full manual (unless it's a group of images that I'll be stitching together for a panorama). Almost 100% of the time, I'm only concerned with the depth of field, and don't care about the shutter speed (always on a tripod), so I leave in aperture mode and let the camera do the rest. It's smarter than me anyway!

Use the exposure compensation to adjust.

Hello,

I've been "lurking" here for a few weeks now, and thought it time to join in.
I shoot primarily landscape images with my 5dMkII and in my spare time chair the gallery committee at our local artist guild of about 500 members.

Hope to learn what I can, and share some things.