- Auto mode tells your camera to use its best judgement to select shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, focus and flash to take the best shot that it can.
- Portrait mode works best when you’re photographing a single subject so get in close enough to your subject.
- Macro mode lets you move your closer into your subject to take a close-up picture.
- This mode is almost the exact opposite of portrait mode in that it sets the camera up with a small aperture to make sure as much of the scene you’re photographing will be in focus as possible
- photographing moving objects is what sports mode is designed for.
- Night mode is for shooting in low light situations and sets your camera to use a longer shutter speed to help capture details of the background
- This mode extends your digital camera from just capturing still images to capturing moving ones.
- Aperture priority mode is useful when you’re looking to control the depth of field in a shot
- Shutter priority is very similar to aperture priority mode but is the mode where you select a shutter speed and the camera then chooses all of the other settings.
- Some digital cameras have this priority mode in addition to auto mode
- In this mode you have full control over your camera and need to think about all settings including shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, flash etc.