Nikon Flash and Commander Mode

Nikon SB-600 Flash

Commander mode allows you to control remote flash unit from your camera. If you never use external flash unit, you may not find this topic very interesting but, if you do, I think this article will help you a lot to understand what this mode is for and how it works with Nikon D90, other [...]

Choosing an Exposure Mode : Program Mode and Manual Exposure Mode

In my previous post, we discussed about Aperture Priority and Shutter Priority modes. Here we will discuss about two other modes: Program Mode and Manual Exposure mode. 3. Program Mode Program Mode ( P ) is almost like Auto mode but it will let you override some of the settings of your camera. Nikon uses [...]

Choosing an Exposure Mode : Aperture Priority and Shutter Priority

Today’s most of the DSLR camera has dedicated scene modes like close-up, portrait, sports etc which set exposure for you automatically and few exposure modes to allow control over your camera default settings. You really do not have control over exposure on those automatic (scene) modes. But if you really want to set exposure as [...]

Camera Settings for Good Photography

If you decided to use DSLR camera then your first job is to learn about Shutter Speed, Aperture, Exposure Compensation, Exposure Lock, Active D-Lighting, Metering, Bracketing, White Balance, ISO Settings and many more. When you learn all these features of your camera, the most important thing is you have to be in right spot at [...]

Understanding White Balance in Digital Photography

Photograph affected by Bulb light source

White Balance (WB) is the technique of managing colors in your photograph. Colors that appears in your photograph represent many things. Unwanted colors which appears in photograph are unpleasant. Process of removing or editing such insignificant colors of photograph is called White Balance. White Balance is used to manage color temperature, contrast, warmness of colors [...]

Understanding an Autofocus Mode with Nikon D90

Autofocus is one of the the great features available in DSLR camera. Some cameras are equipped with an Autofocus motor inside it and some are not. Similarly there are lenses which come with built-in Autofocus motor inside itself. Benefits of having Autofocus motor inside camera is it can Autofocus lens which doesn’t have built-in Autofocus [...]