1. Automatic Mode, it selects everything for you and guesses what you want instead of you being able to choose what you really want.
  2. Portrait Mode, the camera automatically selects a large aperture and blurs the background, so it focuses on the subject.
  3. Macro Mode, lets you move closer to your subject to take a close-up picture, it is great for shooting small objects
  4. Landscape Mode, the exact opposite of portrait mode, it sets the camera up with a small aperture it gives you a large depth of field.
  5. Sports Mode, used for photographing moving objects mostly used in sports, attempts to freeze the action by increasing the shutter speed.
  6. Night Mode, for shooting in low light situations, sets your camera to use a longer shutter speed to help capture details of the background.
  7. Movie Mode, captures moving images, generally new cameras come with movie mode, moving images take up more memory storage.
  8. Aperture Priority Mode, semi-automatic mode, you choose the aperture, and the camera chooses the other settings, controls the depth of field in a shot.
  9. Shutter Priority Mode, you select a shutter speed, and the camera chooses all the other settings, fast shutter speed freezes the motion, it catches it as a blur.
  10. Program Mode, gives you a little more control over some other features like flash, differs from Automatic in your model.
  11. Manual Mode, you have full control over your camera and choose everything like shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance flash, etc, you need know what you are doing and it is the hardest mode to shoot on.