Lisa Yang Jewelry – Free Projects and Patterns: Taking Pictures Like a Pro with my Fancy Nikon DSLR Camera

 I’m thinking if I am overselling myself with the title of this write-up. I really don’t think so. Just after all, I’ve spent the improved section of the previous thirty day period performing on being familiar with basic images concepts. My digital camera is in fact a extravagant Nikon DSLR. And the shots that I’m using will be printed in a print and on the net book about earning wire wrap jewellery with beads, so they will have to be ‘like’ skilled images. Now that I’ve overanalyzed the title, let’s get to the intent of this put up…Just capturing what I have figured out so significantly in circumstance it assists anyone else AND so I know wherever I am at now as I try to boost.

Now, I individual a established of four tabletop pictures lights – two sets of these LINCO Photo Desk Prime Studio Lighting Kits.  I’m not 100% marketed on my choice to do tabletop lights, but I am building them do the job on my dining place desk. It truly is a huge desk and I however have troubles with the stands falling off when I am transferring points all around. The stands are incredibly sturdy, nevertheless, and I think these are a wonderful high-quality light-weight setup for the revenue. It would almost certainly be superior if I was not attempting to continue to keep my images region on one facet of the table and pc workspace on the other conclusion.

I’ve got a few lights around at noon, 2:00 and 10:00, all with diffuser bonnets and the fourth gentle on a chair at 7:00, no diffuser.  I experienced to upgrade the bulbs that came with the package given that they could not supply more than enough mild. The lightbulbs I am employing are 100 watt, 500 kelvin, 1490  lumens.  The lumens is the brightness, kelvin is the colour of the bulbs – warm vs. interesting. 500 is a small on the great side.  The authentic bulbs the lights arrived with were being 60 watt, 800 lumens and also 500k. The new kinds are noticeably brighter while I consider that I could amp them up yet another notch. It’s a massive area with a superior ceiling and I assume that may well be a issue. Which is why I established up a little lightbox in just the region to consist of and mirror the gentle.

The ‘lightbox’ is white poster board. A comprehensive sheet in the middle and half sheets taped on the sides so it is like a trifold.  It reflects the mild again nicely. I also dress in white shirts when I consider images to keep away from absorbing light – though that’s almost certainly overkill. I convert off all the other lights in the place and the east experiencing window in the photograph presents diffuse purely natural light-weight. I won’t be able to take shots in the morning mainly because the light is immediate from that window. 

The entrance two legs of the digicam tripod are on the table I sit in the middle beneath the tripod on a stool from Ikea. Adore the stools as well – they double as tables and stack so I have a bunch of them. Anyway, for this I’m confident there are other solutions. The 3rd leg of the tripod sits on a further taller stool behind wherever I sit. Would seem precarious, and it is a little little bit – but it gives overhead pictures and which is the angle I like. There is adequate place for me to sit comfortably and the angle of my digital camera does not get my head, hair or overall body in the pictures. I want the picture had integrated the digicam, but I will check out to get a shot future time I set up.

The table is covered in grey paper since that is the most popular track record from the publisher. I didn’t like it at initially given that I have always most popular beige, but it can be growing on me. I use Fadeless Bulletin Board Paper,  48” x 50’in Pewter. I enjoy this paper and have it in white, tan, pink and gray. It is really pleasant and thick, very good steady colour, and the rolls past a very long, long time. I have always made use of this sort of paper to deal with my get the job done tables. 

The cat is both less than the table or on the desk – mainly because wherever else would the floof be? BTW, if you feel she’s cute, she’s definitely the worst. Cute with a terrific purr, but hates to be cuddled. The worst blend. You can see what I signify about the morning light from the east window although. 

My computer system is established up at the conclusion of the desk. My newest revelation is that I can connect the laptop to the camera without the need of shifting something in the set up, just link the cord, down load, disconnect and go back again to shooting or examining/enhancing. That has designed a massive big difference in the way I do my get the job done. Previously I was trying to get all the images taken, then took the camera off the tripod to connect and down load, evaluate and edit them all. Ugh. 

Operating on just one undertaking at a time is considerably easier for me and leaving everything in place to hook up is also so much less difficult. The only detail that could make it improved is if I could evaluation every single photo on the laptop check instantly soon after I took it. Probably there is a way and I just have not uncovered it however.

I designed marks on the tripod legs for the digicam and lights so I can break this down and set it up all over again with out a lot problem

Now for my digicam options. I have a extensive angle zoom lens which is in all probability not perfect but it’s what I have to get the job done with. I use a focal duration of 80mm. 

The publisher implies the adhering to options: ISO between 100-200 but can go as large as 400 if essential to boost mild, F-Quit (aperture) concerning F8 to F16, and shutter speed (SS) amongst 1/100 and 1/200 seconds.

My precise settings are ISO 250, F6.3 and SS 1/125 – in some cases higher. These are all guide settings, so camera is set to M, my ISO is established to 250 and you can find a fancy tiny dial that permits me to alter the aperture and shutter pace (in unison) for each shoot.

Some other camera settings: NEF Raw and JPG format with Good top quality, Graphic Dimension is Large, White Harmony is Car, Photo management is Std, Shade Area is Adobe RGB.

I’m nevertheless owning some concerns with depth of subject and concentration. I have less shadows and better aim when I am holding the operate as opposed to flat. Will consider to figure that out – but open to tips.

One particular other factor to include is the application I use for modifying. It generally arrived with the digicam (as a disk- lol) but it is totally free for anybody to obtain.  It is termed Capture NX-D. I found it quite brief to study and does a bunch of points that I definitely want to do – like making use of the very same adjustment configurations to a batch of photos. I haven’t identified editing software package I like given that google dropped Picasa – and that is been a looong time. 

So, that’s my brain dump on “expert” image getting for now. Sense totally free to give your enter on anything. This is all new to me and I am open up to resources and handy feedback. 

I’ll tell you a lot more about the book as I get additional carried out, but it should be readily available right before the vacations (November 2022) and the subject/title is wire wrap jewellery building with beads for inexperienced persons. I am really thrilled about it, but also doing work my butt off on it.