1. A method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus, the method comprising: acquiring a sample image; automatically recognizing, by a processor, a scene in the acquired sample image, wherein the recognized scene comprises one of the following scene types: a night scene, a beach scene, a snow scene, a portrait scene, a landscape scene, a sport scene, and a back light scene; determining a plurality of groups of preview image setting values based on the recognized scene; generating a plurality of preview images based on the sample image, wherein each preview image is generated from the sample image so as to have a group of different preview image setting values according to a corresponding one of the plurality of groups of preview image setting values; and displaying the plurality of preview images.