NIKON's FOTOGRAPHY TIPS

NIKON's FOTOGRAPHY TIPS

Nikon shares its Photography Tips for everyone. Today i will share those tips in bundle. All copyright about the tips belongs to Nikon. 

1. The eyes, it is said, are the windows to the soul. Capture the personality of your subject, through her eyes. Make sure you can see them by zooming in on your subject or moving in close to her.
2. Look up and down when walking around. The best picture may not be at eye level. Sometimes pointing the camera straight down on flowers or patterns in the sidewalk will give you impressive results. Looking up at buildings or the sky, will also give you an interesting viewpoint.
3. If you’re doing a lot of macro photography using a D-SLR and Micro-NIKKOR lens, you can set the lens’ FULL/LIMIT selector to LIMIT. This will restrict focusing between the distances of 1:2.3 and 1:1 (life size).
4. Next time you’re out shooting panoramas, try composing a few as verticals. Not all panoramic images need to be horizontal. Some subjects lend themselves well to a vertical composition.
5. Try shooting panoramas even if you’re not taking photographs of grandiose landscapes. Panoramas can make pictures at the ballpark, beach or even picnics more interesting. Some Nikon Digital Cameras have an Easy Panorama mode or a Panorama Assist mode, which make these photos easy to shoot.
6. Setting the correct date/time on your camera when you first install the batteries is a good idea. Image files with the correct date/time will be easier to sort through if you’re looking through a lot of photographs to find a specific one.
7. When photographing animals of any kind—pets, birds in flight, animals at the zoo—try to zoom in as close as you can or use a longer lens to isolate the animal from its background. By getting a close-up view you have a greater chance of capturing a wonderful expression on the face of the animal, which will give you a more interesting photograph.
8. If your subject is backlit, you may end up with a silhouette. If this is the effect you are going for, great! If not, add fill flash or use the exposure compensation (try +1).
9. You can try a few different techniques to freeze motion: panning (which blurs the background while freezing your subject in motion), using a flash, or zooming out to a wider-angle view.
10. If you’re shooting into the sun and are getting lens flare, a quick way to get rid of it is to ask a friend to place their hand above the camera lens, to block the flare from reaching the lens. You will be able to see if it is working. Just make sure you don’t see their hand in the frame when you take the photo.
11. Most all photographers can take a moment to “tidy up” a scene before a picture is snapped. Photojournalists will leave everything as is but you don’t have to. Tidy a messy desk or straighten frames hanging on a wall behind your subject. Make sure they look good before you snap the photo. They’ll appreciate the photos more.
12. Celebrate the first day of Spring by taking photographs of the changing seasons.
13. Need some inspiration? Take out your camera’s manual and read about a shooting mode or setting that you don’t normally use. Spend a day practicing how to use it.
14. Photographing at the zoo? Careful composition can hide the fact that your wild animal subjects are behind fences or in pens. Zoom in for tight close-ups so you don’t see man-made objects like fence posts, concrete swimming holes or perches for the animals to play on.
15. When shooting landscapes, add a person into the composition for added interest.
16. When shooting bodies of water, use a polarizing filter to reduce glare. It will increase the contrast of the overall image, making colors seem deeper and more vivid.
17. When shooting through glass—at the zoo or aquarium—don’t use your flash. The flash burst will be visible reflected on the pane of glass, likely blocking your intended subject. Instead, increase the ISO if the lighting is not bright enough to take a photo.
18. Successful close-ups of babies often involve eye contact. Focus on the eyes. Use a longer lens, or a macro lens, and get in tight on the eyes and nose. A lot of a child’s personality comes through the eyes. Remember to try to keep the nearest eye in focus, as that will feel more natural to the viewer. Use available light, no flash.
19. Photograph kids at their eye level. Kneel, sit or lie on the ground. This will give you a unique perspective, plus get you more engaged with them.
20. Spend a day taking photos using the effects modes that your camera offers. Some of these can be found in the menus, while others are located on the shooting mode dial. Check your camera manual to see where to find the effects available on your specific camera.
21. Want a unique video of sports action? Use the slow-motion mode that many Nikon digital cameras offer. By shooting the action faster than normal and played back at normal speed, your subject’s movements are slowed down and look more deliberate.
22. Sometimes you just need to throw out the rules. Tilt the camera for different angles and unique compositions. An old filmmaking term is called “Dutch Tilt” (made famous by Alfred Hitchcock). It’s skewing the horizon or lines in the picture by being different. As long as something is recognizable, it will work.
23. Compose photos using the “rule of thirds.” Think of the frame as being broken into nine rectangles (like a tic-tac-toe grid over the picture). Place your subject at one of the intersections of the lines for a more visually stimulating photo.
24. Take a moment to look at the photo framed in the viewfinder or LCD before you snap it. Make sure you can see over the tops of your subject’s heads, and all the way to their feet if you’re taking a full-length portrait. It is easy to cut off part of a person if you’re in a rush to snap a picture.
25. Like the look of HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography but not sure you’d be able to pull off the technique? A number of Nikon cameras have a built-in HDR mode where the camera does the hard work for you. Check your manual to see if your specific camera offers this feature.
26. If you’re taking really important photos that you won’t be able to recreate, bracket your exposures to ensure the photos look great. Most Nikon digital cameras have an exposure-bracketing mode that you can set. It is faster if you let the camera do the bracketing, instead of you having to snap a photo, change the exposure, snap another frame, change it again, and snap a new frame.
27. A great way to remember your trips or special events is by making a photo book. It's a fun way to share your photographic experiences with friends.
28. Use the pet scene mode on your digital camera if it has one, when you take portraits of cats or dogs. If your camera doesn’t have a pet mode, disable the audible beeps and focus assist lamps while photographing them so the lights and sounds don’t distract them.
29. When photographing a lot of people at a party or gathering, use your camera’s Smart Portrait System to help you get better pictures. The blink mode lets you know if your subjects blinked, and the smile timer can snap the photo when the camera sees that your subjects are smiling. There’s also a softening feature that can be found in the retouch menu of some Nikon digital cameras to enhance skin-tone.
30. If you’re using a GPS-enabled COOLPIX digital camera and are on vacation and not sure where to go next, check out the POI (Points of Interest) feature which will let you know of landmarks that are near your location.
31. Find a photography club or group and sharpen your skills. Many community colleges have gatherings of photographers, or check Meetup.com to find a group nearby. You could also join an online photography community such as Flickr to get feedback and critiques of your photography.