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My equipment and basic settings for wedding photography in churches

megaadmin — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:05:21 +0000

Of course, there is no magic formula for setting the camera, no matter what kind of photos you want to take. Neither is there any ultimate equipment for such jobs. This is also the case with the photography of weddings in churches. Motives and light conditions vary from shooting to shooting. Nevertheless, I usually move with my equipment in a certain setting range, or try to approach the location, motives and light from a certain value. Here I talk about equipment, camera settings and editing.

My photo equipment for weddings

I use the Nikon D500 with the Sigma 24-70mm F2,8 DG OS HSM Art lens as my main camera. In my opinion, the focal length range is ideal for weddings and the lens is sufficiently fast. It is a full frame lens, of which I only use the middle field of view because of the DX sensor. This has the positive side effect that the images are crisp right into the corners. And in this image field the autofocus also works absolutely perfectly.

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As second camera I use the Nikon D7500 with the Sigma 18-35mm F1,8 DC HSM Art lens. The 18-35 is actually my favorite lens. With a maximum aperture of 1.8 it produces a beautiful bokeh and is extremely fast. The 18mm focal length is not only suitable for the portrait capabilities of the lens, but also for presenting architecture and churches in an appealing way.

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To keep both cameras close at hand and to be able to switch between them quickly and comfortably, I use a storage system with clip-in function. I love the Peak Design Capture Clip V3. Just screw the Capture Clip under the camera, attach the strap to the belt and we are ready to go. The nice thing about it: With the mounted plate, I can insert the cameras into an arca-compatible tripod head at any time without having to screw anything on or off.

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My basic settings for wedding photography in churches and similar buildings

As described above, there is no such thing as “the ultimate camera setting for wedding photography”. If you seriously believe this, you should refrain from the thought of working in this field. This means that the following settings only reflect a guideline value that has proven to be useful for me and my equipment in most locations. Adjustments to the values are almost always necessary, but as a starting point these are mostly worth gold.

Preparation is everything

If you have the possibility to enter the location before the actual event, you should familiarize yourself with the exact local conditions in advance and adjust your settings with regard to the available light and possible motifs. Remember that the lighting conditions can change depending on the time of day, the weather and the artificial lighting that can be switched on and off. Preparation is everything.

Depending on your chosen and available equipment there will of course also be deviations, this should be clear.

Basic camera settings for wedding photography in churches

Exposure time: 1/250 (I don’t use longer exposure times for human photography)

Aperture: F 2.8

ISO: 2000

Exposure compensation: +1/3 or +0.3. Images tend to be too dark rather than too bright, hence this manipulation.

Focus priority instead of trigger priority, as blurred images are of no use to me.

Exposure metering: center-weighted metering or rare matrix metering.

Recording format: RAW compressed (NEF for Nikon).

White balance: Automatic white balance. This usually works reliably and saves a lot of work during subsequent image processing. Should errors occur, I can correct them in the post-processing thanks to the RAW image.

Photo development and image processing

Some time ago I switched to the image development software and Lightroom alternative “Luminar” from Skylum. The available subscription options from Adobe for Lightroom and Photoshop were simply too expensive for me. I reported about it in this article.
What I particularly like about “Luminar” is the easy and fast application of image settings to other images. This simply saves time, because I don’t have to edit each image individually, but can “copy” the settings of one image to other images with similar motif placement and similar lighting conditions. This still needs to be fine-tuned, but this is the smallest part of the work.

What works really well is the integrated Accent AI technology, which automatically adjusts images using an AI. In my opinion, the results are not perfect, sometimes even artificial if you exaggerate the intensity of these functions, but they also save a lot of time. A feature I miss in Lightroom.

For later retouching and image manipulation I use the Photoshop alternative “Affinity Photo” by Serif.

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Can I test Luminar and Affinity Photo for free as a demo?

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Charging Nikon DSLR batteries in your car with 12V power

megaadmin — Wed, 22 May 2019 19:59:24 +0000

If you travel frequently by car or mobile home and also want to charge your batteries on the road, you may know the problem: Sometimes there is no 220V power supply at hand and the battery of the SLR remains empty.
After a long search, I have now found a charger that charges the batteries on the 12V on-board power supply, for example via the cigarette lighter.

I have been a fan of the third market batteries of “Blumax” for quite some time, as I report in this blog entry. The same manufacturer also offers a selection of chargers, one of them can also charge the batteries on the 12V car electrical system.

In the past, I have searched several times for possibilities to charge the batteries, such as the EN-EL15a or EN-EL15b mobile, but have always failed, because the tried chargers functioned unreliably. Now I have made another attempt and I am finally satisfied with my new 12V charger.

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My new “Blumax” charger is not very light and space-saving (12.5cm X 11cm X 4cm at 284gr weight), but it can charge two of the above batteries at the same time.

The charger can charge the batteries either via the regular 220V power supply or the 12V car electrical system. The variety of the connection possibilities relativizes the bulky form and the high weight of the charger, as now I don’t have to carry the original chargers with me anymore. An output socket for USB power allows me furthermore to charge my power bank connected via USB.

The device has a digital display, which shows the state of charge of the batteries in percentages of 10 (10%, 20%, 30%, …, 100%). This display of the state of charge works reliably, the value actually corresponds to a large extent with the value determined by the camera. The devices I have tried so far could only do this very unreliably or not at all.

When charging the batteries, the user has the choice of whether they should be charged particularly quickly or with normal charging current. I myself always use the slow mode, because I think that the batteries are charged slower, but more gently. So I haven’t gained any experience with the fast mode yet.

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Nikon D7500 4K Video Settings – Best practise explained step by step

megaadmin — Thu, 16 May 2019 19:01:26 +0000

In this manual I will explain the settings I use to record videos on the Nikon D7500 and why I use these settings. So you can create clear video with high recording quality with your D7500.

The complete manual as video

Reading’s not your style? Here you see all settings with explanation in the video.

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Setting the Camera to M Mode

This mode gives us full control over both exposure time and aperture.

Choosing the right shutter speed

When creating videos, the shutter speed must always be set in proportion to the video material being made and its frame rate.
As exposure time I use 1/60, because I usually shoot videos later with 30 frames per second (30p), more about that later.
If you use other frame rates, like 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p or 24p, you have to adjust the shutter speed to the next suitable value. Here again the overview:

Framerate	Shutter speed
60p	1/125s, as there is no 1/120s
50p	1/100s
30p	1/60s
25p	1/50s
24p	1/50, as there is no 1/48s

Attention: Please also note the section “Flicker reduction” in this context.

Choosing the right aperture

Which aperture you choose is up to you, depending on how you want to present your motif. If you choose a lower aperture, the background of your motif will blur due to the shallow depth of field, making your motif more prominent.

With a higher aperture, the background of your motif is sharper due to the high depth of field and the entire image is characterized by a high depth of detail due to continuous sharpness.
Note that if you choose a higher aperture, the image itself becomes darker, and if you choose a lower aperture, the image becomes brighter.

The only important thing at this point is that we have control over the aperture, because we use the M mode of our camera to do this. If we were to let the camera control the aperture in A mode, the camera would change the aperture depending on the light situation while shooting and we would take a shot with varying depth of field and brightness all the time. Not only does this look unprofessional, it’s also really annoying for the viewer.

Movie Shooting Menu Settings

For all the following settings, we switch to the movie recording menu. The settings stored there only take effect when we operate the camera in movie mode. I don’t proceed here in the order of the menu entries, as for example some settings are already adjusted automatically by the selection of the resolution and frame rate and we don’t have to deal with them anymore.

Choosing the correct frame size/frame rate

I make my own video recordings in 4k with 30 frames per second.
At 30 frames per second, movements in the picture look most natural and smooth, and 60p shots of action cams can be integrated very easily, for example to create slow-motion functions.

Therefore, I first select the setting “3840 x 2160; 30p” in the film recording menu under “Frame size/frame rate”.
With these settings, the “Choose image area” is changed to “DX” by default, the movie quality is thus automatically set to “High” and the digital VR is off, so we don’t need to deal with these menu items anymore.

Note: To be honest, nobody buys a Nikon D500 or D7500 to make bad videos, I myself never understood why there is the possibility to set the movie quality to “Low” at all.

ISO sensitivity settings

Now you can decide how you want to proceed and whether you want to make the ISO settings manually or automatically. In the menu entry “IOS Sensitivity Settings” you can select if the automatic should be used in the field “Auto ISO control (Mode M)”.

• If you are recording a video in an environment where the lighting conditions in the subject will not change, you can manually adjust the ISO settings and then leave them at the correct value.
• If you have to assume that lighting conditions will change during shooting, for example because a person moves in the picture and their illumination varies, use the ISO automatic.
• If you are simply lazy, regardless of the ambient light conditions, you also use the ISO automatic. Seriously, ISO auto works reliably and doesn’t cause any image distortion if the ISO number changes during shooting. Actually, you can use the ISO automatic with a clear conscience.

There is one thing that needs to be considered with regard to the ISO automatic. Set the “Maximum sensitivity” value to “10,000”. Above this value, the image quality can suffer from noise and color noise, so we only allow the ISO automatic to operate up to this value.

White balance

Almost the same applies here as with the ISO automatic.
Actually, the automatic white balance is sufficiently reliable. I use it in 90% of all shots.

Picture Control

Here I select the setting “FL Flat”.
This preserves details over a wide range of tonal values, which maximizes the optimization potential in later post-processing, i.e. you can get the most out of this profile afterwards.

Active D-Lighting

Off. I don’t want the camera to manipulate the image independently.

High ISO NR

Here we leave the default value “Normal” set.

Flicker reduction

The flicker reduction is intended to avoid flickering in the image, which can be caused by artificial lighting. Depending on the frequency at which the local power grid operates (50Hz in Germany), some light sources tend to emitt the normal fluctuations in the power grid, so that you will notice them when recording video at that light.

The automatic flicker reduction delivers good results. Sometimes, however, it also fails, this can happen in very bright environments, for example.
To counteract this, you can take the following measures:

Manual setting of the flicker reduction to 50Hz or 60Hz, depending on which setting gives the best result.
If the flicker reduction is not enough, you may need to adjust the shutter speed, even if this would violate the above recommended shutter speeds.
o1/125s, 1/60s or 1/30s at 60Hz power grid
o 1/100s, 1/50s or 1/25s at 50Hz power grid

Microphone sensitivity

When I use the built-in microphone of the D7500, I use the automatic level.
If I use an external microphone such as my Zoom H2n, I manually level the microphone input.
You can find more details about external microphones in this blog post “Zoom H2n as an external microphone on the DSLR”.

Frequency response

Here you can choose between “Wide” and “Voice”. I personally don’t like the sound of the “Voice” setting in speech at all and therefore use the much more natural sounding “Wide” frequency response, no matter if I record with the built-in microphone of the D500 or my Zoom H2n as an external microphone. You can find more details about external microphones in this blog post “Zoom H2n as an external microphone on the DSLR”.

Wind noise reduction

The wind noise reduction settings only work when we use the D7500’s built-in microphone.

If I record in locked, windless rooms, I switch off wind noise reduction as a potential source of error.
If I record outside with the built-in microphone, I activate wind noise reduction.

Digital VR

Off, because this setting is not available due to the 4K recording.

Time-lapse recording

Off, because no one who seriously wants to take time-lapse shots has them recorded by the camera as video, but rather composes the film from individual photographs.

Which memory card is suitable for 4k video?

So that your camera can pack even high data rates quickly on the memory card, you should rely on a correspondingly fast SD card.
I myself use the following card:

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Record video – what do I have to do?

Now it’s getting easy. At the bottom right of the display you will find a toggle switch with a photo and a video symbol. Toggles this switch so that the video mode is active. Now switch on Live-View and you will see the camera’s field of view in 4K mode on the display. By pressing the red “Record” button on the left under the release button, you start and stop the recording.

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Nikon D7500, D850 and D5600 after firmware update 1.10 with fully functional WiFi

megaadmin — Thu, 09 May 2019 18:22:29 +0000

Nikon has released the firmware update of version 1.10 for the cameras D7500, D850 and D5600. Nikon users of D7500, D850 and D5600 now receive the long-awaited open Wi-Fi, with which now also connections to other devices than only the SnapBridge app are possible.

After Nikon recently published Firmware 1.20 for the D500 with fully functional WiFi (you can find my post about that her e), these new functions are now also coming to the above mentioned cameras.

After the camera has been updated to the new firmware, we can find the data of the WiFi network that the D7500, D850 or D5600 is using in the menu under “System” “Wi-Fi” “Establish Wi-Fi connection”. With this data, we can now dial into the camera’s network using a PC, Mac or mobile device and then remotely control it using any software such as “qdslrdashboard” or “ControlMyCamera”.

The new firmware for D7500 1.10 is available at this link: https://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/products/352/D7500.html

The new firmware for D850 1.10 is available at this link: https://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/products/359/D850.html

The new firmware for D5600 1.10 is available at this link: https://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/download/fw/326.html

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HDR Settings for Nikon D7500 on Usersettings „U1“ and „U2“

megaadmin — Wed, 08 May 2019 18:57:56 +0000

In this blog entry I’ll show you how to set up the Nikon D7500 so that you can create an exposure series for HDR photography. I will devide this tutorial in two sections: One for easily and fast shooting of HDR images free hand, another professional setting for shooting HDR images from a tripod mounted camera. We store all HDR-specific settings for each method in a separate usersetting bank „U1“ or „U2“ to recall all the settings easily and fast. So we will be able to switch between normal workflow and HDR workflow very quickly.

Settings for HDR recordings by free hand and from the tripod saved to usersetting bank „U1“

In order to be able to record HDR recordings free hand, we use the following settings on the quick memory bank „U1“. These settings are chosen so that the entire HDR series is recorded quickly and without long delays between shots. This prevents changes in the scenery caused by movement and thus ghost images. Settings for waiting times between two shots are reduced to a minimum and the mirror lock up is not used.

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General Camera settings

Selecting the correct operating mode:
Turn the program selector wheel to „A”.
Adjust the correct aperture:
At this point I set aperture to “8” for HDR shots and change it according to the subject and environment.
Setting a suitable ISO number:
I’ll start here at ISO 400.
Activate the bracketing row:
Hold down the BKT button and use the rear control dial to set “5F” for 5-step bracketing. Enter the value “1.0” as the selection for the entire step size with the front e-dial.

Settings in the “Photo Shooting Menu”

Optional: change folder names to HDR75 (this gives us our own directory for HDR photos)
Optional: change file name to HDR (so we can easily distinguish HDR photos from “normal” photos by the file name)
Flash control: TTL (no matter, because we don’t use flash anyway)
Choose image area: DX
Image quality: RAW
Image size: L
NEF (RAW) recording: Lossless Compression and 14-bit
ISO sensitivity settings: ISO auto OFF, start at 100
White balance: cloudy sky, so that always the same white balance is used during the bracketing row, the correct correction we carry out later at the PC.
Manage Picture Control: NL (Neutral)
Active D-Lighting: OFF
Long exposure NR: OFF
Vignette Control: OFF
Auto distortion control: OFF
Flicker reduction: OFF
Auto Bracketing set: AE
Multiple exposure: OFF
HDR (high dynamic range): OFF
Note: We want to create an HDR ourselves from the individual shots later, if we used this option, the camera would assemble an HDR itself, without us having any influence on the final result. This function is only used by people who normally take photos with their smartphone.
Interval timer shooting: OFF

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Settings in “Custom configuration Menu”

We leave all settings on the default values except for the following settings mentioned here:

Menu area C “Timers/ AE lock” – C3 self-timer – self-timer delay: 2
Menu area C “Timers/ AE lock” – C3 self-timer – number of shots: 5
Menu area C “Timers/ AE lock” – C3 self-timer – interval between shots: 0.5 seconds
Menu area E “Bracketing & Flash” – E5 BKT order: N

Save settings permanently to Usersetting bank „U1“

In order to really save the settings we have made so far, we go back to the “SYSTEM” menu and select the memory bank „U1“ under the “Save User Settings” system menu item and confirm twice with “OK”.
If we now switch to another operating mode such as “A”, “M” or “S” or switch off the camera and then switch back to the „U1“ program, all our previously set data will be available again. Depending on the available light, we may have to adjust the exposure series properties to the lighting conditions.

Taking photos

We have now saved all settings and can make our recordings when we access the usersetting „U1“.
First we switch off the autofocus and focus manually, so that the focus does not change unintentionally during the exposure series.

When shooting with a tripod

First, turn off the image stabilizer if present on the lens. Switch to the self-timer. Now 5 shots are taken automatically within the configured exposure bracket with a lead time of 2 seconds. When HDR shooting is finished, simply switch back to A, M, S, or P mode.

When shooting free hand (without a tripod)

First, turn on the image stabilizer, if present on the lens. Switch to high speed mode CH. Now, while holding the shutter-release button down, 5 shots are taken in a row within the configured exposure bracket. When HDR shooting is finished, simply switch back to A, M, S, or P mode.

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Professional settings for HDR recordings from tripod saved to usersetting bank „U2“

If we really have a lot of time to shoot our HDR exposure series and take pictures from a tripod, then we should use the full spectrum of HDR functions of the D7500 to get better pictures. To do this, we use the following settings on the „U2“ bank. These settings are chosen so that the complete HDR series is recorded with sufficient waiting times between the individual shots and the mirror lock-up, so that there is no shaking movement caused by vibrations of the tripod.

General Camera settings

Selecting the correct operating mode:
Turn the program selector wheel to „A”.
Adjust the correct aperture:
At this point I set aperture to “8” for HDR shots and change it according to the subject and environment.
Setting a suitable ISO number:
I’ll start here at ISO 100.
Activate the bracketing row:
Hold down the BKT button and use the rear control dial to set “5F” for 5-step bracketing. Enter the value “1.0” as the selection for the entire step size with the front e-dial.
As an alternative to the 5F and 1.0 bracketing above, a 0.7 to 9 step increment (range -2.8 to +2.8) can be used for a wider coverage area with finer gradation between shots.

Settings in the “Photo Shooting Menu”

Optional: change folder names to HDR75 (this gives us our own directory for HDR photos)
Optional: change file name to HDR (so we can easily distinguish HDR photos from “normal” photos by the file name)
Flash control: TTL (no matter, because we don’t use flash anyway)
Choose image area: DX
Image quality: RAW
Image size: L
NEF (RAW) recording: Lossless Compression and 14-bit
ISO sensitivity settings: ISO auto OFF, start at 100
White balance: cloudy sky, so that always the same white balance is used during the bracketing row, the correct correction we carry out later at the PC.
Manage Picture Control: NL (Neutral)
Active D-Lighting: OFF
Long exposure NR: OFF
Vignette Control: OFF
Auto distortion control: OFF
Flicker reduction: OFF
Auto Bracketing set: AE
Multiple exposure: OFF
HDR (high dynamic range): OFF
Note: We want to create an HDR ourselves from the individual shots later, if we used this option, the camera would assemble an HDR itself, without us having any influence on the final result. This function is only used by people who normally take photos with their smartphone.
Interval timer shooting: OFF

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Settings in “Custom configuration Menu”

We leave all settings on the default values except for the following settings mentioned here:

Menu area C “Timers/ AE lock” – C3 self-timer – self-timer delay: 2
Menu area C “Timers/ AE lock” – C3 self-timer – number of shots: 5
Menu area C “Timers/ AE lock” – C3 self-timer – interval between shots: 0.5 seconds
Menu area E “Bracketing & Flash” – E5 Bracketing Order: N
Menu area D “Shooting/Display” – D3 Exposure Delay Mode: ON with 2 seconds
Optional: Menu area D “Shooting/Display” – D4 electronic Front-Curtain Shutter: ON (Use with caution. This can eliminate blur caused by the shutter motion, but should only be used with high-quality lenses. Better give it a try first, before using this feature productive.)

Save settings permanently to Usersetting bank „U2“

In order to really save the settings we have made so far, we go back to the “SYSTEM” menu and select the memory bank „U2“ under the “Save User Settings” system menu item and confirm twice with “OK”.
If we now switch to another operating mode such as “A”, “M” or “S” or switch off the camera and then switch back to the „U2“ program, all our previously set data will be available again. Depending on the available light, we may have to adjust the exposure series properties to the lighting conditions.

Take photos

As we only photograph from a tripod with these settings, we should switch off the image stabilizer if it is present on the lens. Now switch to the self-timer. Now 5 shots are automatically taken within the configured exposure bracket with a lead time of 2 seconds and a waiting time of 4 seconds between shots. The mirror lock up is used for the reduction of shaking movements. When the HDR recording is finished, simply switch back to A, M, S or P mode.

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Der Beitrag HDR Settings for Nikon D7500 on Usersettings „U1“ and „U2“ erschien zuerst auf Pixelfriedhof.