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

 I’m wondering if I’m overselling myself with the title of this put up. I really don’t assume so. Right after all, I have spent the greater component of the very last month working on knowing essential pictures concepts. My digital camera is in fact a fancy Nikon DSLR. And the pics that I am getting will be posted in a print and on line reserve about earning wire wrap jewellery with beads, so they will have to be ‘like’ expert photographs. Now that I’ve overanalyzed the title, let’s get to the intent of this article…Just capturing what I have figured out so much in situation it can help any person else AND so I know where I’m at at the moment as I attempt to strengthen.

Now, I possess a set of four tabletop pictures lights – two sets of these LINCO Image Table Major Studio Lights Packages.  I am not 100% sold on my choice to do tabletop lights, but I am creating them function on my dining space table. It truly is a massive desk and I still have issues with the stands slipping off when I’m moving things all-around. The stands are pretty sturdy, on the other hand, and I feel these are a pleasant top quality light set up for the cash. It would in all probability be superior if I wasn’t trying to hold my pictures location on just one side of the table and pc workspace on the other end.

I’ve got a few lights approximately at midday, 2:00 and 10:00, all with diffuser bonnets and the fourth light on a chair at 7:00, no diffuser.  I had to update the bulbs that arrived with the kit since they could not deliver adequate gentle. The lightbulbs I am applying are 100 watt, 500 kelvin, 1490  lumens.  The lumens is the brightness, kelvin is the shade of the bulbs – heat vs. amazing. 500 is a very little on the awesome facet.  The original bulbs the lights arrived with ended up 60 watt, 800 lumens and also 500k. The new types are noticeably brighter despite the fact that I think that I could amp them up one more notch. It is a large room with a higher ceiling and I feel that may well be a issue. Which is why I set up a compact lightbox inside the area to have and reflect the light.

The ‘lightbox’ is white poster board. A entire sheet in the middle and 50 percent sheets taped on the sides so it is like a trifold.  It displays the mild back again properly. I also wear white shirts when I just take shots to prevent absorbing light-weight – even though which is most likely overkill. I change off all the other lights in the area and the east going through window in the photo gives diffuse all-natural light. I can’t just take photographs in the morning mainly because the light-weight is direct from that window. 

The front two legs of the camera tripod are on the desk I sit in the middle beneath the tripod on a stool from Ikea. Like the stools much too – they double as tables and stack so I have a bunch of them. Anyway, for this I’m confident there are other methods. The 3rd leg of the tripod sits on an additional taller stool behind the place I sit. Appears precarious, and it is a minor little bit – but it presents overhead photographs and that’s the angle I like. There is adequate area for me to sit comfortably and the angle of my camera will not get my head, hair or physique in the pictures. I would like the image experienced incorporated the camera, but I’ll consider to get a shot up coming time I set up.

The table is protected in grey paper since that is the chosen history from the publisher. I failed to like it at 1st because I have constantly preferred beige, but it truly is escalating 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 nice and thick, excellent consistent colour, and the rolls previous a prolonged, lengthy time. I have generally applied this kind of paper to include my operate tables. < /p>

The cat is possibly below the table or on the desk – because where else would the floof be? BTW, if you consider she’s cute, she’s really the worst. Adorable with a excellent purr, but hates to be cuddled. The worst combination. You can see what I signify about the early morning light from the east window however. 

My computer is established up at the finish of the table. My latest revelation is that I can link the laptop computer to the digital camera devoid of relocating something in the setup, just join the wire, obtain, disconnect and go back to shooting or reviewing/editing. That has designed a enormous big difference in the way I do my get the job done. Earlier I was striving to get all the pics taken, then took the digital camera off the tripod to connect and download, evaluate and edit them all. Ugh. 

Performing on one project at a time is considerably simpler for me and leaving everything in put to hook up is also so considerably simpler. The only point that could make it far better is if I could critique each individual picture on the personal computer check right away after I took it. Maybe there is a way and I just have not identified it nonetheless.

I produced marks on the tripod legs for the camera and lights so I can crack this down and established it up once again without considerably hassle

Now for my digital camera configurations. I have a broad angle zoom lens which is in all probability not suitable but it truly is what I have to work with. I use a focal length of 80mm. 

The publisher suggests the next settings: ISO between 100-200 but can go as substantial as 400 if important to boost light, F-Quit (aperture) between F8 to F16, and shutter speed (SS) between 1/100 and 1/200 seconds.

My real configurations are ISO 250, F6.3 and SS 1/125 – sometimes increased. These are all handbook options, so digicam is established to M, my ISO is set to 250 and there is certainly a extravagant very little dial that allows me to regulate the aperture and shutter velocity (in unison) for each shoot.

Some other digital camera options: NEF Raw and JPG structure with Great high quality, Graphic Size is Substantial, White Harmony is Auto, Picture management is Std, Colour Place is Adobe RGB.

I’m nevertheless getting some issues with depth of area and focus. I have fewer shadows and superior concentrate when I’m holding the work as opposed to flat. Will try out to figure that out – but open to solutions.

A single other issue to insert is the software I use for modifying. It essentially arrived with the camera (as a disk- lol) but it is totally free for any one to download.  It truly is identified as Capture NX-D. I observed it very brief to understand and does a bunch of issues that I genuinely have to have to do – like implementing the exact adjustment configurations to a batch of photographs. I have not found editing software package I like since google dropped Picasa – and that is been a looong time. 

So, that’s my mind dump on “experienced” picture having for now. Feel no cost to give your enter on something. This is all new to me and I am open to sources and useful opinions. 

I am going to explain to you more about the ebook as I get additional finished, but it ought to be readily available in advance of the holiday seasons (November 2022) and the subject matter/title is wire wrap jewelry building with beads for newbies. I’m very thrilled about it, but also doing work my butt off on it.