How to test special features of your digital camera

If you're someone who likes to use special features, then you need to learn how to use them — and then make sure that you turn them off when they are no longer needed. One of my favorite features, and one that has become a common and widely used feature on many digital cameras, is the panorama mode. I've also been known to experiment with color effects and occasionally use the timed shutter-release so that I can be in the photos, too. When you use special features like these, you should make it a practice to turn them off as soon as you are through using them. Otherwise, they'll be on when you don't want them to be and you may miss getting the photo that you want.

So, are you ready for a quick test to see whether you're ready to shoot an important event? If so, then do the following:

• Quickly set your camera to a shooting mode suitable for shooting portraits.
• Turn on the flash to get some 'fill flash,' a small amount of light to supplement the existing light.
• Make sure you turn on the red-eye reduction feature.
• Set ISO to 100 to minimize digital noise.
• Set white balance for shooting with flash.
• Quickly review your settings to make sure they are set as you want and that you do not have a setting that would be contrary to your intentions!
• Now, set your camera to an exposure mode suitable to shoot a landscape on a tripod in late evening light.
• Set ISO to the lowest setting (for example, 50 or 100) to ensure a high-quality image. Check to see that your white balance setting is appropriately set.

If you made the changes for both of these photos in less than 20 seconds, you're just about ready for shooting in important events!  

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