I really, really understand why a lot of people choose to let the camera make all the decisions. There are times when you don't have time to set it up because you are in the moment and there's no time or you will miss the shot. I get it. But on the other hand, if you do have the time and you really consider yourself a photographer, then as an artist you owe it to yourself to take control of the camera and capture the image the way you see it or want others to see it. Personally, I try to adjust as many things as I can before I take the shot so I don't have to spend 3x more time fixing it in a photo editing program. I usually take a test shot at first to check to see what I am seeing is what will be recorded by the camera. Then I make adjustments based on that to start making the images that I will actually choose from before I go posting it anywhere.
I think you owe it to yourself if you have the skills to exercise your creativity and control the way the camera records the image. I don't want to have to rely on what the camera chooses or Instagram or Photoshop or any other post-production software to fix things in my image that I could have corrected while I'm "in the field" shooting. And I certainly don't want a machine(camera) making the decisions about how my image is recorded.
(Quietly steps down off her soapbox...)
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