Types of programmed exposures

Here I have given some of the most general programmed exposures that are present in most of the latest DSLR cameras.

Portrait: This Scene mode uses a large f-stop to throw the background out of focus and generally sets the flash (if used) for red-eye reduction mode.

Night: Reduces the shutter speed to allow longer exposures without flash, and to allow ambient light to fill in the background when flash is used.

Night portrait: Uses a long exposure, usually with red-eye flash, so the backgrounds don’t ink into inky blackness.

Beach/Snow: May slightly overexpose a scene to counter the tendency of automatic metering systems to overcompensate for very bright settings.

Sports: Uses the highest shutter speed available to freeze action, and may choose spot metering to expose for fast-moving subjects in the center of the frame.

Landscape: Generally selects a small f-stop to maximize depth-of-field, and may also increase the saturation setting of your camera to make the landscape more vivid.

Macro: Some cameras have a close-up Scene mode that shifts over to Macro focus mode and adjusts how your camera selects focus.

Posted by Randy Norton | at Friday, October 16, 2009

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