I do a lot of my standard shooting in P Mode and have found it to faithfully reproduce what I expected to see.
Otherwise, I use full Manual (M) mode for the more tricky shots where I want to control specifically what part of the image should be a certain tone. I do this by spot metering on that particular area and dialling in any manual compensation, if it is too light or too dark. An example is a bird in flight photo, where the bright background sky can “fool” the meter into underexposing by a couple of stops thus recording the bird as a silhouette.
Cheers
Dennis
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