3 BEST NIKON TRICKS in 3 minutesStep up your wildlife photography
- It's Friday again, and today I'm going to share with you my three favorite custom settings that I use all the time when I'm out doing wildlife photography. And especially when
I'm shooting with these heavy lenses, it's so helpful. And I'm sure it'll benefit
a lot of you out there, if you don't already
know these three tricks. So, let's get started with
Photographer's Friday.
When I'm out doing wildlife photography, it's so important to me that I can have my full concentration on the animal or the subject I'm photographing. Meaning that the more
time I can have my eye in the viewfinder and my
finger on the release button, the bigger the chance
that I actually capture that single moment that makes a difference between a good picture
and a really good picture. Because we all know that it's just these small moments where the light changes or the animal does something unexpected, that is when we want to be ready with the eye in the viewfinder and our finger on the release button. So, the three tips I am
going to share with you now, is some custom settings that I always use and now I'm sitting with a Nikon here, I have also shot with
other model of Nikon, I have shot with Canon,
I have shot with Sony, and I always find a way
to set up the camera to achieve the principle I'm
going to share with you now.
One of the most important thing for me is that I can keep my left hand on the lens, so I can handle the zoom ring or the focus ring, if I have a focus ring. The first tip is to
customize the preview button because I have now to take it down, to press the play
button, to see the image. And that just doesn't work, because if something happened now, I have to take it back up, find where the animal is, and everything is gone. So, the first thing I
do is I go into the menu and to the custom setting menu.
Controls, and in controls I go to the custom controls assignment. And here I go to the function two button, it might be different on
your camera, and then I set the function two button
to be playback, voila. That means that I can still
use the play button if I. Want to, but with that
custom setting is made, I can keep my eye on the subject and I can press the button down here, and that means I can
watch and check the image on the back of the screen
without moving this hand.
Setting number two is kind of an extension of setting number one, because sometimes I want to go in and check if
the image is actually sharp. So, what I do is I go to the menu. Again, I go to controls, I go to multi selector center
button and on playback mode I set that to zoom on/off, and then to 100% magnification. That means that it goes 1:1, that I can really check the sharpness.
So, with that done I can
now preview the image and press the center of
the multi selector here, and that means I go to 100%. It's also very helpful
when I have the histogram and I press, I zoom in
and I can actually see the histogram for that little area. That means I can go to
the snow and see exactly where the snow is, so
that's pretty helpful. Setting number three is not
really a custom setting, but it's something I use all the time.
I use auto ISO a lot, and I know some of you might think, "oh, a professional wildlife photographer doesn't use auto ISO," and that's what I sometimes get in my comments. But for me, it's not about what I use, it's about the picture I get. So I do use auto ISO a lot on this camera and I'm going to share with you in a later video why I do it, but for now I want to show you how I do that change very fast. Because very often I find
myself in a situation where I'm shooting 100% manual, something happened, light changes and I just don't have the
time to do the adjustment and then I just switch to auto ISO.
To change from manual ISO to auto ISO, I simply, instead of pressing the ISO. And use the thumb to change the ISO, I just use this finger to turn this dial and that switches auto ISO on and off. And that's really, really helpful because I can do all this when I'm still looking through the viewfinder. So, I really hope that you could use these tips for your own photography.
And your camera model might not support exactly the way I do, or maybe you cannot change the
auto ISO the way I do, maybe you need to configure
the buttons a little different, if you're using Canon and stuff like that. But even when I'm shooting with a Canon, I manage to set it up
just slightly different and if you find settings that works better for you and your camera model, please share them in the comments because I know that a lot
of us will benefit from it. And yeah, that was basically it. Please subscribe, if you haven't already and then, see you next time..
I'm shooting with these heavy lenses, it's so helpful. And I'm sure it'll benefit
a lot of you out there, if you don't already
know these three tricks. So, let's get started with
Photographer's Friday.
When I'm out doing wildlife photography, it's so important to me that I can have my full concentration on the animal or the subject I'm photographing. Meaning that the more
time I can have my eye in the viewfinder and my
finger on the release button, the bigger the chance
that I actually capture that single moment that makes a difference between a good picture
and a really good picture. Because we all know that it's just these small moments where the light changes or the animal does something unexpected, that is when we want to be ready with the eye in the viewfinder and our finger on the release button. So, the three tips I am
going to share with you now, is some custom settings that I always use and now I'm sitting with a Nikon here, I have also shot with
other model of Nikon, I have shot with Canon,
I have shot with Sony, and I always find a way
to set up the camera to achieve the principle I'm
going to share with you now.
One of the most important thing for me is that I can keep my left hand on the lens, so I can handle the zoom ring or the focus ring, if I have a focus ring. The first tip is to
customize the preview button because I have now to take it down, to press the play
button, to see the image. And that just doesn't work, because if something happened now, I have to take it back up, find where the animal is, and everything is gone. So, the first thing I
do is I go into the menu and to the custom setting menu.
Controls, and in controls I go to the custom controls assignment. And here I go to the function two button, it might be different on
your camera, and then I set the function two button
to be playback, voila. That means that I can still
use the play button if I. Want to, but with that
custom setting is made, I can keep my eye on the subject and I can press the button down here, and that means I can
watch and check the image on the back of the screen
without moving this hand.
Setting number two is kind of an extension of setting number one, because sometimes I want to go in and check if
the image is actually sharp. So, what I do is I go to the menu. Again, I go to controls, I go to multi selector center
button and on playback mode I set that to zoom on/off, and then to 100% magnification. That means that it goes 1:1, that I can really check the sharpness.
So, with that done I can
now preview the image and press the center of
the multi selector here, and that means I go to 100%. It's also very helpful
when I have the histogram and I press, I zoom in
and I can actually see the histogram for that little area. That means I can go to
the snow and see exactly where the snow is, so
that's pretty helpful. Setting number three is not
really a custom setting, but it's something I use all the time.
I use auto ISO a lot, and I know some of you might think, "oh, a professional wildlife photographer doesn't use auto ISO," and that's what I sometimes get in my comments. But for me, it's not about what I use, it's about the picture I get. So I do use auto ISO a lot on this camera and I'm going to share with you in a later video why I do it, but for now I want to show you how I do that change very fast. Because very often I find
myself in a situation where I'm shooting 100% manual, something happened, light changes and I just don't have the
time to do the adjustment and then I just switch to auto ISO.
To change from manual ISO to auto ISO, I simply, instead of pressing the ISO. And use the thumb to change the ISO, I just use this finger to turn this dial and that switches auto ISO on and off. And that's really, really helpful because I can do all this when I'm still looking through the viewfinder. So, I really hope that you could use these tips for your own photography.
And your camera model might not support exactly the way I do, or maybe you cannot change the
auto ISO the way I do, maybe you need to configure
the buttons a little different, if you're using Canon and stuff like that. But even when I'm shooting with a Canon, I manage to set it up
just slightly different and if you find settings that works better for you and your camera model, please share them in the comments because I know that a lot
of us will benefit from it. And yeah, that was basically it. Please subscribe, if you haven't already and then, see you next time..
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