How do the "scene modes" on my digital camera help me take better photographs?
The scene modes on your camera are probably the easiest ways to improve your picture quality, of anything we've talked about. When you set the camera in automatic or the green idiot proof mode, the camera doesn't know what kind of pictures you want to take. I recommend to my customers that they use three scene modes. The first one the landscape scene mode. If you're taking a picture of a scenic or a broad vista you use the landscape. Generally de-noted by the mountain with a tree or a person in front of it. That give you a good four round background focus. It gives you a slow shutter speed, some things moving are going to blur be aware of that. The second scene mode that I would recommend would be the portrait. It's usually de-noted by a face or a head, so that's to isolate a subject for a person or some person that you want to isolate. Try to put the background out of focus. Landscape, portrait, the third one is the action stopping, or running guy mode. That's for stop action, for moving subjects. Those are the three scene modes that I recommend that you use each and every time, for those of you who are afraid to get off of the idiot proof. Landscape, portrait, action/scene mode . Get used to those, use them, and you'll take better pictures.
