The only settings I do to the camera away from the auto point and shoot is to set it to Macro (to help with the auto focus), apply some optical camera zoom to get rid of the circular edge of field visible, and force the flash to be OFF (I have occasionally forgotten to do this and the first shot is cactus and so is your night vision
- must make the neighbours wonder what is up too!). Good luck with it and be sure to post some results.