You’re at the ocean, prairie, mountain climbing (pick a vista) and you’d like to take a photo. There are beautiful boats, wildflowers, rocks (pick a subject) in the distance that you’d like to capture in your photo. This is when landscape scene mode becomes your best friend.
You want all of the photo to be in focus. You also want the muted, similar colors in the distance to be clearly displayed in the photo.
Again – landscape mode can be your best friend. It will automatically set the focus of your camera to infinity – trying to capture the entire scene in focus. It will also gently enhance the saturation and contrast of the colors in the scene.
The photo of the baseball field above was taken from a distance of about 200 yards using auto mode on the camera.
As you can see, the colors all seem to blend together. The grass in the foreground is in focus, but the bleachers in the background seem a little blurry.
Now let’s take a look at the same scene captured with landscape scene mode.
Baseball field captured using landscape scene mode
You can see the contrast and saturation of the colors was automatically boosted by the camera. The greens look a bit more vibrant and the tan of the playing field doesn’t melt into the green.
The difference is subtle, but enhances the photo.
Side by side comparison of landscape and auto scene modes
As you can see, the backstop is also slightly more in focus.
Landscape scene mode works well when trying to capture a sailboat in the distance while retaining the clarity of the waves in foreground. Or, the mountain goat on the next hill and wildflower right next to you.
What other scenes can you find for landscape scene mode this week?
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