What are your go-to settings when you go on a shoot?

The goal is to show the interviewer that you adjust your approach to every shoot based on who, what, and where you are photographing. This will demonstrate your experience.

Focus on the importance of being comfortable working with different settings and adjustments that are typical of and appropriate to different situations.

I don't have go-to settings that apply to every shooting scenario. The settings are driven by what and where I am shooting. That said, I have developed some basic settings that I start from for different situations. For example, if I want to capture landscape shots, my basic settings for aperture, shutter, and ISO speed start in a different place than the settings I would start with if I photograph someone's portrait.