Used to be a photographer VERY long ago (pre, pre digital)...anyway, love to hear some feedback on this shot. Used a Nikon D200, ISO400, F5.6 @ 1/350 and 50M.
Used to be a photographer VERY long ago (pre, pre digital)...anyway, love to hear some feedback on this shot. Used a Nikon D200, ISO400, F5.6 @ 1/350 and 50M.
I prefer the framing of the second one (the wider one) as it gives proper look space for his chest position. My biggest feedback would be that it appears to be exposed for the background, rather than your subject. A good solution would be to bring a bounce to lighten him, or re-frame the shot to give your foreground subject a bit more light. That will also reduce the noise in the shadows and make your subject a bit less contrasty. Final feedback would be to avoid the vignetting unless it's very subtle. More often than not these days, vignettes tend to overpower framing and aren't as in vogue as they were several years ago. Keep shooting! Thanks for sharing.
Hi Glen, following on from Martin, could also try spot metering. I occasionally used a D200. Plenty of options open to you to get the right exposure within wooded areas, including the use of speedlite. Exposure mistakes will be there, but dont worry too much. They will come to you soon enough.
Thanks for the feedback!
I also much prefer the framing in the 2nd one. I'll have to dig into the menu and figure out the spot metering, I actually had this in manual mode and used an iphone app for determining the exposure. I'm about to pull the trigger on Lumopro flash, so that should help (going to buy the Strobist Kit off of Midwest Photo). Nice thing about digital is the immediate feedback!
Spot metering. it is that little knob on the right of the view finder and to the left of the AF-ON tiny button. Nikon has three settings on them, center weighted dial pointing to the top, matrix dial pointing level to the view finder and spot metering, dial pointing down.
Any other issue with D200...look up Ken Rockwell. Always happy to assist.
No worries, Enjoy your photography
For metering, you actually don't need to use an app if you don't want too. While you are looking inside your viewfinder at the bottom you should see your aperture, shutter speed, ISO, shots left on your card metering type, and a bar with a plus on one side and a minus on the other. If you don't see that info just half press the shutter and it should show up. That bar is the meter inside your camera. As you change your shutter speed, ISO, and aperture there will be some lines that stack to left and to the right as you change your settings. if it stacks towards the plus sign you are overexposing. if it stacks to towards the minus side you are underexposing. if it's in the middle that's the camera saying this is what it thinks the correct exposure is. You don't have to stay in the middle but this little bar will help you get pretty close to a good exposure setting. I hope this helps you out! Your doing good keep up the good work! When you can, look into off camera flash! it seems intimidating at first but it's actually not so bad! just remember, when it comes to flash power the larger the number the less power the flash outputs and vice versa. 1/1 is full power and 1/128 is the least power. keep going my dude!
Sorry to correct you here. Unlike Canon models, the Nikon D200 does not automatically display a exposure compensation bar inside the viewfinder until the compensation button is pressed. This is another tiny button that sits next to the shutter release button. Take your time and familiarise yourself with all the various buttons.
Thanks to both of you for the great advice.
Hi Glen, Just remembered this. It is possible to activate the exposure compensation bar inside the view finder. Go to menu and select Pencil logo, select b / Metering and Exposure, select b5 and active Exposure comp to: ON. This should bring the compensation bar up within the view finder permanently.
Best Wishes