Night Portrait Mode

Each of these mode dial advanced scene modes act as a classification or theme containing a group of predefined scene modes pertaining to the parent mode. Each of the predefined scene modes will determine camera settings, although the CREATIVE option gives you additional opportunities to set some of the camera settings yourself.

Depending on the predefined scene selected, you can control the shutter speed so you can create blur in a moving subject or vary the depth of field to limit sharpness to the plane encompassing just your subject or expand sharpness to encompass a much greater area. Here you will start moving into the realm of controlling the outcome of the camera yourself. This, in fact, becomes an intermediate step toward semi-automatically operating the camera and exerting your own creativity toward creating pictures and videos.

The Portrait Mode has five predefined scene mode options all related to recording images of people. One of Portrait Mode’s predefined settings is to have the FACE RECOG. Command set to [ON] Displays the playback of a picture taken using the Portrait Mode’s NORMAL option. Note the red Portrait icon in the lower-left corner of the screen along with the Face Recognition results.

Night Portrait Mode allows you to take pictures of a subject in a nighttime setting. Select this scene mode by selecting the Night Portrait Mode icon on the mode dial. For this mode, you can choose from the scenarios listed in.

The predefined scene modes available for the Night Portrait Mode
Screen Icon	Predefined Scene Mode	Description
	NIGHT PORTRAIT	This mode is used to take photographs of people in a nighttime setting. The exposure and shutter speed are set to capture enough light falling on the subject to create an accurately colored and detailed portrait. Both Face Detection and Face Recognition functionality are enabled with this selection. The camera will focus on a face using 1-area-focusing. For pictures, the camera’s software will also search through its maximum six registered faces to see if there is a match. If so, the person’s registered name and age will be displayed with the image and resulting picture. The flash’s intensity will be reduced if the recognized face is determined to be of a person 3 years old or younger.
	NIGHT SCENERY	This mode is photographed with a slow shutter to allow for the camera to capture enough light to vividly record the total scene.
	ILLUMINATIONS	This mode is used when there are points of illumination within the image.
	CREATIVE	This mode is initially set for nighttime portraits but allows the user to change the camera’s aperture to control the depth of field to blur or sharpen the background from the subject.