I'm looking for a piece of equipment compatible with a Nikon D60?
I'm looking for a piece of equipment that is compatible with a Nikon D60 that will allow me to shoot on the natural light setting but not have my photos come out blurry OR something that will allow me to shoot using flash/auto but produce natural light results.
Also, a question within a question, is there any way to have my photos come out extremely similar to how they look in the viewfinder? I find that when I take a photo, it looks great through the viewfinder but is distorted (but still nice) when I browse through my gallery.
Help/comments/ and recommendations are greatly appreciated.
By natural light, do you mean indoors or outdoors? Outdoors in bright sunlight you should be able to take photos without any blur at shutterspeed 1/60 or higher, especially if your aperture is very small, like f/16.
Nikon has a feature in its newer lenses called VR, or vibration reduction. If you bought a brand new D60, the kit lens it came with should have this feature. If not though, I highly recommend buying one. It makes taking pictures in low light much easier, as it stabilizes your image. Here is an example of a wide angle VR lens http://www.amazon.com/...000O161X0/
It's important to remember that when it comes to digital photography, we're taking pictures that are read by a camera sensor, and the sensor does not always "see" images exactly like the human eye.So, photos often need to be color corrected in a program like Adobe photoshop. If you do not want to invest in Photoshop (it's fairly expensive), or do not have the time to edit your pictures, the best way to get accurate colors is to set the White Balance on your camera to AWB, automatic white balance. Natural light is impossible to achieve with the flash on your camera. It is just a terrible accessory, and makes pictures look washed out. It's really only there for convenience - most top of the line digital cameras don't even have them. I've been studying photography for a long time, and the only way to get sharp low light pictures with accurate colors is to balance your camera on a tripod or table when you take pictures without a flash, or to buy a handheld flash like this: http://www.amazon.com/...000KKPN5C/ <--this is a great investment, in my opinion, and they can be found much cheaper than this if you look around on the internet a little bit. They produce much more natural light than the built in flash on your camera, and can be set to produce different amounts of light. They can also be detached from the hot shoe, and used handheld so you can have light come from whatever direction you want.
Also, just a little note on sharpness of pictures: A great way to make sure your picture is Really sharp, is to (1) have your lens set on autofocus (2) press shutter halfway down to focus, and simultaneously zoom All THE Way IN on the subject to make sure the tiny details are in focus, too. If they are not, release your finger and press the button halfway down again, while zoomed in, to focus (3) with your finger still pressed halfway down, un-zoom back to where you were, and take the picture. This guarantees even fine details will be in focus.
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The piece of equipment you are looking for is called a photography for beginners course.
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