I am no professional photographer and most of the time I do shoot in auto mode and use Darktable get a little bit more out of my photos afterward. But sometime

I am no professional photographer and most of the time I do shoot in auto mode and use Darktable get a little bit more out of my photos afterward. But sometimes the auto mode is simply not enough. For example when doing night photography. The camera (at least my Canon) typically pushes the ISO beyond good. Taking pictures of apartments is another case where the auto mode often creates subpar results. Most of the time you want to overexpose those pictures to let the apartment appear brighter than it is. And I am sure there are more cases, where there are no alternatives to knowing how to handle the manual mode. Btw. some cameras also support those semiautomatic modes, where you can set some options and let the camera determine the others.