From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 2)
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Scene modes
- Program mode, priority modes, manual modes. By now you should be comfortable with the idea that the mode dial lets you decide how much control you want over the exposure process. Depending on your camera your mode dial may have some additional things, some things that we haven't looked at in this course. And I'm thinking specifically of scene modes. I've got a Canon Rebel here right now and it's got a bunch of little icons on it here in addition to program mode and my priority modes and whatnot. It's got a little mountain with the sun setting over it, it's got a flower, it's got a guy like playing tennis or I think he's running, that's what it is. Anyway, you've probably got something like these. These are little international symbols for different types of scenes. What the scene modes do is bias your camera's exposure decisions so that they're right for particular subject matter. For example right now I have Becky back here to do another portrait. This time Becky I'm going to aim…
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