If you have to spend time adjusting different settings before every picture, you will definitely miss some of the greatest things.
Adjust your camera with advice from professional photographer Jason Vinson, and you’ll never miss a good shot again. Besides weddings you can use these tips for any events you attend to.
1. Aperture Priority
If I’m shooting a bride getting ready in front of a window, then her dad walks in to see her for the first time and he is standing in a dimly lit doorway, the quickest way to get that shot is aperture priority. In addition to aperture priority, I have auto ISO set to ON, my minimum shutter speed set to 1/200, and my max ISO set to 12,800.
2. Back-Button Focus
3. PV Button
I have this button set to MYMENU. This just allows me to make certain items within the menu quicker to access. Right now I have ISO sensitivity settings in here so that I can quickly adjust my minimum shutter speeds and my minimum and maximum allowed ISO.
4. Fn Button
I have this button set to flash off. I love this button. When I’m shooting with off-camera flash and want to take an ambient only shot, I no longer have to remove my flash trigger or turn my flash off.
5. Live View Exposure Preview
Probably one of the most hidden and hard to find settings on the D750 is the Live View Exposure Preview. It cannot be found in any of the menu subsets. In order to turn on the exposure preview function you first have to turn on live view. Then, press the “i” button on the left of the screen and scroll all the way down. From there, you can change ExpOFF to ExpON.
6. User Settings
A great feature of the D750 is the ability to save custom user settings. I don’t use this as intended, but say you share the camera with someone and you both like to have it set up a completely different way. With the D750, you can save the settings for user one as U1 and the second user saves their settings to U2.
7. Flash Button
Nothing is more annoying than hitting that little flash button on accident and having the pop-up flash spring into action. A lot of people just tape the thing down and call it done. However, I like to use this pop-up flash every once in a while as a commander flash for off-camera lights. So I still want the ability for it to pop up, but I don’t want it to pop up accidentally. To fix this, press the flash button and have the flash pop up, then hold the button and spin the rear wheel till you get to the flash off setting. Now, press the pop-up flash back down and it will no longer pop up when you press the button.
Read Jason Vinson’s full article at Fstoppers.
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Kevin Fisher