Real World Digital Photography, Third Edition

4. Digital Photography Foundations

With most digital cameras, it’s easy to begin taking photos as soon as you insert a battery and a memory card. But it’s important to familiarize yourself with the different settings contained in your digital camera’s menus and submenus. Human nature being what it is, of course, most of us probably take lots of pictures before delving too deeply into the instruction manual. The fully automatic mode on most cameras that handles every decision for you except where to point the camera makes this very easy to do. The Auto mode is great for those times when you need to take a picture quickly and don’t want to think about which setting to use. But to achieve the photograph you’re after, you’ll more often need—and ...