–  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.

–  When you switch to portrait mode your camera will automatically select a large aperture which helps to keep your background out of focus

–  Macro mode lets you move your closer into your subject to take a close-up picture

– (Landscape Mode) 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

– (Sports mode) Photographing moving objects is what sports mode (also called ‘action mode’ in some cameras) 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, but it also fires off a flash to illuminate the foreground

– (Movie mode) This mode extends your digital camera from just capturing still images to capturing moving ones

– (AV mode) This mode is really a semi-automatic mode where you choose the aperture and where your camera chooses the other settings so as to ensure you have a well balanced exposure

-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.

– Program mode is similar to Auto but gives you a little more control over some other features including flash, white balance, ISO etc.

– (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.