HP s300 HP s300 Digital Camera - User Manual - Page 37

Icon Item Candlelight Night Portrait Soft Skin Description This feature is used to capture warm candle light effects. This scene mode uses the flash and will leave the shutter open longer to get more ambient light from the background. This will help reduce typical flash pictures where the subject does not have a black/dark background. Ideally, this will produce photos that have more detail in the background. For best results and reduced image blurring, the use of a tripod for this mode is strongly recommended. This scene mode will set red-eye flash and other camera parameters to enhance/soften tones that produce smoother younger looking skin as well ad reduce the appearance of blemishes. Flowing Water This mode enhances flowing water by applying a slight blurring effect. Food This scene mode is designed to capture pictures of food in vivid colors. The Camera is set to macro mode focus and other parameters to increase saturation for enticing food images. Building This feature enhances the edges of captured images that make it ideal to highlight details of buildings. Text Foliage Auction Smile Capture Blink Detection Pre-composition Love Portrait This feature enhances the black and white contrast normally used when capturing text images. Typically, normal photos of documents may look grey in tone. This mode will optimise settings for more color accurate results. This feature boosts the saturation of greens to give a rich color to foliage and lawns. This feature combines up to 4 shots into a single photo and provides 4 patterns to select for usage of auction. It also selects resolution settings that produce detailed but smaller size photos that are Ideal for email attachments and online auction postings. This feature uses face tracking to auto detect faces to capture. Press the shutter button and with each smile, the camera automatically detects and takes the photo to help ensure those moments are captured. The camera will continuously take smile detected subjects until the shutter button is pressed again. This feature detects if the subject blinked an eye when the image is captured and gives the user an option whether to save the photo or not. Compose the desired background and capture the shot by pressing the shutter button. A semi-transparent portion of the photo will display in the background of the LCD live display. Use this as a guide to compose the final photo. Press the shutter again to capture the final photo. This feature uses face tracking to auto detect faces to capture portraits photos without the help of others. When two faces or more are detected in the same focus range, the AF is automatically activated and the camera starts a visual count down. In a few seconds, the camera automatically takes a picture. The camera will continue to snap photos as long as the two or more subjects are in range. This is a great feature to have when no one is around to assist. 33