Switching to program mode, however, allows your camera to make some decisions for you, but also puts three things in your control: the flash, the ISO value, and the white balance. Let's start!

Your camera’s Program and Auto modes are clearly different–for one thing, camera manufacturers are unlikely to create two modes that do the exact same thing. Here’s a typical camera settings dial, ...

Beyond manual and automatic, cameras have many different modes, all that give you varying degrees of control. Here's how to decide which one to use.

If you're not ready for these, then jump below to Typical scene program modes and Less-common scene modes. Looking for more help? Check out our Photography How To section.

In this guide to your camera's Program Mode - or P Mode - we'll answer many of the common questions about what it is and how it works, as well as show you how to get more creative results by ...

In part one of this series you kicked your digital SLR camera's auto mode to the curb with the help of program mode. In doing so, you learned to con ...

The Program mode, illustrated by a P, instructs your camera to set the best values for aperture and shutter speed depending on the scene, leaving you with the freedom to play around with every ...

The exposure generated by Program mode is an automatic one, based on the metering mode selected on the camera. As a result, it can get things wrong: typically over-exposing dark subjects and under ...

Are you trying to figure out what the M, A, S, and P modes on your camera are? Let's show you how these work and how they can benefit you.

While most cameras have access to modes which offer the same functions, they are sometimes represented by different icons or letters on different brands of camera.