How will auto exposure impact my digital photos?

How will auto exposure impact my digital photos?

Mark Comon (Vice President, Paul's Photo, Torrance, CA) gives expert video advice on: What does my digital camera's "landscape mode" do?; What does my digital camera's "night mode" do?; What does my digital camera's "kids and pets" mode do? and more...

Why do you use the green auto? Because it's there. And some people are not comfortable with anything else but fully automatic. Why would you not use it? Because you want to take better pictures. You want to take control of the picture. You want to tell the camera what kind of an image you want, what kind of vision you have, how you want the subject to be treated. That's why we have the scene modes, and the manual side of the dial, with program aperture priority, center priority, and manual, so that I, or you, the photographer, can take control and make the picture look the way you want, not just fully automatic. You wouldn't just take a cake, and stick it in the oven, and tell the oven to just cook, right? That's what green auto is. You've got to be able to take some control if you want professional, beautiful quality pictures.