Fergie, Mostly the scenery or time value. Then, it's a matter of adjusting light and contrast to get the picture to reflect what you saw with your eyes.
I have been taking a ton of pictures the last few days playing with all the different settings and got a few good ones and can definitely see the difference in several of the settings. Sent from my DROID X2 using Tapatalk
When I first started (with film of course), I might have one photo I liked. When Digital first came out and I was still shooting film, I might get 6 on a roll of 24 that I liked. With digital, it saves a lot of money without having to pay to print bad photos, and lets one take more to get the photo they like. Keep at it brother.
I can't figure out any of the settings on my camera. I'm a bad, bad Japanese person. :D I did get this sunset. This is looking from my yard toward our huge (lol) town. Grain elevator sunsets... they're under utilized. hahahahaha!
They are electrical lines .... tho there does seem to be alot of them??? I never noticed until you mentioned it! Gotta look when I get home!