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Technical Tips
“THINK ABOUT THE look you want to achieve,” Neil says, “and this will help determine your lens choice. For example, a fast zoom enables you to be flexible with your composition, and if you work with a wide aperture you’ll be able to soften the background.
“When you’re working with a shallow depth of field, however, you need to make sure focusing is spot on. With a camera such as the Nikon D850 you can go into Live View and set Pinpoint AF, which enables the lens to be focused tightly on the intended focus point. Models such as the D850, D780, and the Z 6 and Z 7 Series also offer Focus Peaking, where you set the lens to manual focus and choose Peaking level in the i-button menu. The camera fires a burst of shots at slightly different focusing points, which are merged in post to create a shot with an extended depth of field.”
Learn with the Nikon school
WITH MANY OF its courses now online, training via the Nikon School really is open to everyone, with a wide range of well-priced learning available to photographers at all levels and using any brand of equipment – although Nikon users will get particular value from the content.
Head to the Nikon School website to take a look at what’s on offer and to see what you could sign up for, with everything from lighting technique through to running a digital darkroom, mastering a particular piece of Nikon gear, filmmaking and even one-to-one tuition all available, along with location courses and experience days being offered in the UK and overseas.
