Intro to Camera Settings. These are the three main ingredients to expose a photograph: ISO sensitivity, shutter speed and lens aperture.

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Intro to Camera Settings

These are the three main ingredients to expose a photograph: ISO sensitivity, shutter speed and lens aperture.

Exposure time is controlled by shutter speed, and the lens aperture at a given ISO sensitivity.

Automatic Mode Auto mode tells your camera to use it’s best judgment to select shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, focus and flash to take the best shot that it can. This mode will give you nice results in many shooting conditions, however you need to keep in mind that you’re not telling your camera any extra information about the type of shot you’re taking so it will be ‘guessing’ as to what you want.

Program Mode (P) Some digital cameras have this priority mode in addition to auto mode. Program mode is similar to Auto but gives you a little more control over some other features including flash, white balance, ISO and toggling though a series of exposure options. This is a good starting point from Auto Mode.

Aperture Priority Mode (A or AV) This mode is really a semi-manual mode where you choose the aperture and where your camera chooses the other settings (shutter speed, white balance, ISO etc) so as to ensure you have a well balanced exposure. Aperture priority mode is useful when you’re looking to control the depth of field in a shot.

Shutter Priority Mode (S or TV) 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. You would use this mode where you want to control over shutter speed. For example when photographing moving subjects, you might want to choose a fast shutter speed to freeze the motion. Or you might want to capture the movement as a blur of a subject like a waterfall and choose a slow shutter speed.

Fast shutter speed and a large aperture.

Slow shutter speed and a small aperture. Use a tripod.

Manual 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. It gives you the flexibility to set your shots up as you wish. Used with your LCD monitor this should be fairly simple to use and evaluate your settings.

Portrait Mode When you switch to portrait mode your camera will automatically select a large aperture (small number) which helps to keep your background out of focus (ie it sets a narrow depth of field - ensuring your subject is the only thing in focus and is therefore the centre of attention in the shot).

Macro Mode Macro mode lets you move closer into your subject to take a close up picture. It’s great for shooting flowers, insects or other small objects. When you use macro mode you’ll notice that focusing is more difficult as at short distances the depth of field is very narrow (just millimeters at times). Keep your camera and the object you’re photographing parallel if possible or you’ll find a lot of it will be out of focus.

Landscape Mode This mode is almost the exact opposite of portrait mode in that it sets the camera up with a small aperture (large number) to make sure as much of the scene you’re photographing will be in focus as possible (it gives you a large depth of field). It’s therefore ideal for capturing shots of wide scenes, particularly those witch points of interest at different distances from the camera..

Sports Mode Photographing moving objects is what sports mode (also called ‘action mode’ in some cameras) is designed for. It is ideal for photographing any moving objects including people playing sports, pets, cars, wildlife etc. Sports mode attempts to freeze the action by increasing the shutter speed.