Automatic Mode
Tells your camera to use it’s best judgement to select shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, focus and flash to take the best shot that it can
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
Is almost the exact opposite of portrait mode in that it sets the camera up with a small apertureto 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 is designed for. It is ideal for photographing any moving objects
Night Mode
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. Most new digital cameras these days come with a movie mode that records both video but also sound.
Aperture Priority Mode (A or AV)
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 Mode (S or TV)
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 (P)
Some digital cameras have this priority mode in addition to auto mode, In those cameras that have both, 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. It gives you the flexibility to set your shots up as you wish