D90 User Group (V)

[tangerine]

Nice. Looking at such pictures make me realise I still have A LOT to learn about capturing nice images and PP to make them outstanding.

 

[madmartian]

very nice shot, especially the first one. hahaha. D90 is a damn good camera. lol. what lens are you using?;p

Thank you sid. Glad you like it
Shot with 18-55mm kit lens

 

[madmartian]

Nice. Looking at such pictures make me realise I still have A LOT to learn about capturing nice images and PP to make them outstanding.

Thank you tangerine. Glad you like it
Just as long as you dun give up & con't to pursue your interest in photography & have an open mind to learn, you'll be on your way to take nice pictures

 

[sidloojl]

Thank you sid. Glad you like it
Shot with 18-55mm kit lens

Wah. Awesome la. Crazy stuff!

 

[madmartian]

Wah. Awesome la. Crazy stuff!

Ya, thanks again

It was from my trip to Japan.

If you have time, please do take a peek - http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/threads/862465-*-My-Japan-Trip-Dec-2010-*-madmartian

 

[sidloojl]

Ya, thanks again

It was from my trip to Japan.

If you have time, please do take a peek - http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/threads/862465-*-My-Japan-Trip-Dec-2010-*-madmartian

Truly beautiful

 

[madmartian]

Truly beautiful

Thank you again :cheers:

 

[rains]

Hi guys,

I use D90 to do my home studio shoot for my kids, but I get black strips of shadown on the bottom (landscape orientation) or side (portrait orientation) when the shutter speed is at 1/250 and above.

I asked a salesperson at Cathay Photo and he said it's because the camera is not fast enough to capture the speed at 1/250 (perhaps under studio condition).

Anyone experienced the same problem?

madmartian,

Beautiful pictures indeed! Can you share what control you used for the pictures ie. natural, vivid, landscape or ...?

 

[Cowseye]

Hi guys,

I use D90 to do my home studio shoot for my kids, but I get black strips of shadown on the bottom (landscape orientation) or side (portrait orientation) when the shutter speed is at 1/250 and above.

I asked a salesperson at Cathay Photo and he said it's because the camera is not fast enough to capture the speed at 1/250 (perhaps under studio condition).

Anyone experienced the same problem?

madmartian,

Beautiful pictures indeed! Can you share what control you used for the pictures ie. natural, vivid, landscape or ...?

Did you shoot with a external flash that does not support high speed sync? Your symptoms sounds like that.

 

[tangerine]

Hi guys,

I use D90 to do my home studio shoot for my kids, but I get black strips of shadown on the bottom (landscape orientation) or side (portrait orientation) when the shutter speed is at 1/250 and above.

I asked a salesperson at Cathay Photo and he said it's because the camera is not fast enough to capture the speed at 1/250 (perhaps under studio condition).

If I am not mistaken, black stripe means your shutter speed too fast. Try slowing down to 1/60 try first; if black stripe not there, then try going higher 1 stop at a time until you start seeing black stripe - this way, you will know the sync speed for your body/flash.

 

[gnesgnoy]

D90 should be able to shoot 1/250. I also have a issue using built in flash forgetting to remove the lens hoof causing black shadows at 18mm. There is function to enable high spees sync on D90.

 

[pasay]

Hi guys,

I use D90 to do my home studio shoot for my kids, but I get black strips of shadown on the bottom (landscape orientation) or side (portrait orientation) when the shutter speed is at 1/250 and above.

I asked a salesperson at Cathay Photo and he said it's because the camera is not fast enough to capture the speed at 1/250 (perhaps under studio condition).

that is incorrect. your camera's shutter was actually faster than your flash, hence you captured your shutter's rear curtain (the black strip showing in your picture). your d90's flash sync speed is 1/250 means that for non-CLS (nikon's flash system) flashes, your max shutter speed is only 1/250 to avoid the black strip. you can google flash sync speed to understand more on how this works.

 

[pasay]

D90 should be able to shoot 1/250. I also have a issue using built in flash forgetting to remove the lens hoof causing black shadows at 18mm. There is function to enable high spees sync on D90.

high speed sync has nothing to do with focal length. the black shadow you saw at 18mm was your lens hood blocking the built-in flash. take a shorter lens like 18-55 with the same settings you used and you wont see the shadow. it's only that at high shutter speeds, you reduce the amount of ambient light, making the shadow more prominent. and at 18mm, you capture the light falloff in your framing

 

[rains]

Did you shoot with a external flash that does not support high speed sync? Your symptoms sounds like that.

I shot with 2 strobes (Profoto Compact 300). The salesperson said that the strobes are fast enough but not the camera.

I am sorry but what do you mean by 'does not support high speed sync'?

 

[ZerocoolAstra]

I shot with 2 strobes (Profoto Compact 300). The salesperson said that the strobes are fast enough but not the camera.

I am sorry but what do you mean by 'does not support high speed sync'?

Could be your trigger used to set off the strobes was not fast enough.
Quite a number of strobes, triggers and even hotshoe-mounted flash units have a limit of 1/250s. Anything faster than that, and the flash fires at the wrong timing, causing you to capture the shutter blade.

If you mount a Nikon Speedlight (eg. SB600, 700, 800, 900, etc) on the hotshoe, for example, you have to enable the high-speed sync function (I think it's called AUTO FP or something) to shoot at faster than 1/250s.

 

[ZerocoolAstra]

I shot with 2 strobes (Profoto Compact 300). The salesperson said that the strobes are fast enough but not the camera.

I am sorry but what do you mean by 'does not support high speed sync'?

The actual duration of the pulse of light from the strobe is probably in the thousandths of a second. So in that regard, yes, the strobe is fast enough
It's more the timing of the triggering with regards to the shutter blade's movement.

I hope that you know reducing the shutter speed does not make the flash brighter. It only increases the ambient light captured

 

[madmartian]

Hi guys,

I use D90 to do my home studio shoot for my kids, but I get black strips of shadown on the bottom (landscape orientation) or side (portrait orientation) when the shutter speed is at 1/250 and above.

I asked a salesperson at Cathay Photo and he said it's because the camera is not fast enough to capture the speed at 1/250 (perhaps under studio condition).

Anyone experienced the same problem?

madmartian,

Beautiful pictures indeed! Can you share what control you used for the pictures ie. natural, vivid, landscape or ...?

The D90 fastest flash sync speed is 1/200. Anything above that, your picture will have a black strip. I've not tried high speed flash sync on it before, so I can't help you on this.


The settings control of the shots I took are all in Neutral. In fact, that's my default setting for all my shots.
And I capture my shots in RAW format.
Thank you rains, am glad that you like my photos :cheers:

 

[iandao]

hi all!!

very long nv log in already..anyone here using Sigma APO 70-200 F2.8 OS HSM?

 

[snipshot]

Any one here using D90+tamron 17-50mm f2.8 BIM no VC, what setting is best for this combination? Is it a good combination?

 

[Cowseye]

Any one here using D90+tamron 17-50mm f2.8 BIM no VC, what setting is best for this combination? Is it a good combination?

There isn't the best setting. You set what you need for certain situation. Learn more abt basic photography and help yourself to understand better, or else, in any lens any case, shoot in auto.