2020-05-01_N-Photo_the_Nikon_magazine

GO PRO – PAUL WILKINSON Family portraits involve memories, not just images. That’s why it’s crucial that the experience you prov ...

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Creative and budget portrait ideas You don’t need expensive props or studios to make portraits that are both creative and fun! C ...

SECTION HEAD The Mission Use a variable ND filter to slow exposures precisely Time 30 minutes Skill level Intermediate Kit ...

CONVEY MOVEMENT IN STILLS Compose your scene Set your scene as you would any landscape shot, using the rule of thirds. As the w ...

The Mission Add a little pizzazz to your portraits by introducing some creative props. Time Four hours Skill level Intermed ...

CREATIVE PORTRAITS Expert Tip IF THE BOOT FITS The most stable position for our ladder to be in meant that it partially obscured ...

Lotta bokeh Add LED lights This eye-catching technique lets you spice up a dull background with plenty of bokeh. Tape a string o ...

/HWȆVJRȩ\DNLWH Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious With a little Photoshop trickery, you can have your model floating in the ...

SECTION HEAD The Mission Learn how to calibrate and use Nikon’s DF-M1 dot sight Time 20 minutes Skill level Intermediate K ...

SHOOT WITH A DOT SIGHT I’ve got the power The DF-M1 uses a CR2032 battery (found loose in the box). A thin implement is needed ...

SECTION HEAD The Mission Use Affinity Photo’s layer blending controls to combine several photos Time 15 minutes Skill level ...

DOUBLE EXPOSURES Copy and paste Open the portrait and the two blend images (multi_01-03) into Affinity Photo, then make sure yo ...

SECTION HEAD The Mission Selectively lighten and darken areas of an image with Lightroom and Photoshop Time 15 minutes Skill ...

ENHANCE MONO LANDSCAPES Convert to mono When converting to mono, we can control the brightness of colours, which gives us a hea ...

SECTION HEAD Nikon Image Space George Cairns demonstrates how to organize and share your Nikon files anywhere using a mobile dev ...

NIKON IMAGE SPACE Expert Tip If you use a Nikon camera that doesn’t support geo-tagging, try taking an additional photograph of ...

Stack and stitch James Paterson focus-stacks a flower in several segments, then stitches them together for a super-detailed clos ...

STUNNING PHOTO STACKS ...

CREATIVE TECHNIQUES 1 2 4 5 3 6 CREATIVE TECHNIQUES 1  Trip o d We need to shoot a series of shots in perfect alignment, so the ...