Episode Summary 
DTown TV is a weekly show brought to you by Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski with KelbyTraining.com.
Episode Summary
In this week's episode they cover:
- Scott shows you how to embed your copyright information into your image files in-camera.
- Need to check if you have the latest firmware for your camera? Here's the link
- Vincent Versace shows how to set black, white, and gray points in Capture NX2.
- Matt gives a tip on time-lapse photography. Click here to download the JPEGS from Matt's Time Lapse Tip
- Nikon Professional Services Manager Scott Diussa shows you the proper way to attach your camera strap.
- For info on the St. Lucia workshop, check Joe McNally's blog, or the resort website to sign up.
- Click here to download a PDF about Joe McNally's upcoming workshop
- Scott shows how to attach the SD-9 battery pack to the bottom of a camera body
- Scott's final tip... If you're wondering if a tip works for your camera, give it a try!
Great show once again, thanks for the tips! Your shirt looks great
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thats a great show and very helpful…
I was wondering if anyone makes computer software that would allow you to connect and edit the settings on Nikon Cameras specifically a D700 and D3
I cant help but think that there could be an easier way to control the camera settings remotely
THANKS!
Excellent Episode as usual. Just managed to upgrade ny D300 Firmware.
I would love to see tips on how to use hyperfocul distance or an easier way to focus to ensure everything in fron of the subject to far distance is in focus.
Thanks
Thx for the great Show
Scott,
I wouldn’t dream of asking you to change the official wardrobe. Is there a reason you like black?
all in good humor. Maybe you could get Nikon to change the color of their cameras, then we could easily see the camera against your shirt. Just looking out for you.
Great show once again. Keep it up.
These shows are great; the tips, suggestions and hands on how tos are second to none. Keep it up guys; by the way I took their advice and ordered an Upstrap fpr my D300; I really like the strap.
Great show, guys! I learn something new every episode.
A suggestion for discussion topic: I’m new to DSLR photography, I often hear the term “expose for the sky/highlights/shadows/etc. I sort of have an idea of what that means, and I think I understand how to do it on my camera by using the AE-L/AF-L button. But if you could give a break down of how to do it, that would be great.
Thanks again for the show.
Brian
San Antonio, TX
Another GREAT show! Thanks so much for your amazing tips. You goys rock. I also enjoyed the time increase! Thanks for more.
I am really enjoying the series.
If you are going to use the intervalometer (Interval Timer) on your camera, here are a few suggestions
1) Set this list to manual or take it off of automatic:
Focus
Aperture
F stop
ISO (take it off of Auto)
White Balance
Auto Bracketing
Now why do you want to do all of that. Focus – if something moves from shot to shot the camera may change its focus and ruin your pictures. Same for the exposure – aperture, F-stop, white balance and ISO if something bright moves into your shot the camera will adjust for it. Your video will look choppy if there are a lot of changes. Also if you are trying to show a sunset as the sun goes down there will be less light and you want to record it. You don’t want the camera to adjust for the changing light.
Consider recording as basic or normal size JPGs this will save you some battery life and lots of time converting images to the smaller sizes you need for Standard or HD video (HD maxs out at 1920 x 1080)
Finally to really save your battery. Turn off Image Review.
I like Black too…Another great show and learning. I find myself coming home from work and going directly to the site to watch the latest. This great!
Excellent show as usual
the shutter close switch…. it’s on the D700 as well….
All the best
Michael
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mkrphoto/
You mentioned how to add copyright information in your images.. great tip however when you showed the tip for the D40/60 I jumped to my camera (D60) and found there is an issue with this. If you make a mistake you can’t backspace or delete. According to the help file it says you can but it does not work. Wonder if you guys noticed this?
Another great episode! Though I couldn’t help laugh at the name being blurred out as I ddin’t see the reason -bleep- needed to do so, maybe cause he was recording off his camera and didn’t want to confused other viewers.
Hey Scott & Matt another great episode, regarding timelapse though I needed to upgrade my Quicktime to Quicktime Pro to do image sequence. But I’m on Windows so not sure if its free on a mac.
Now why would you have to blur out Brad’s name? Interesting episode.
Hey guys,
Another grate show. Just a few questions about time laps. I have a D90, can I do time laps on it? I have looked through all the settings through and through, and have not found away of doing it.
All so, some tips on shooting concerts or stage shows. Say like you get you first job shooting a concert for a local news paper, you have full access, but you cant use a tripod, and you are using a 18-200mm lens to get the action. So, your shooting away, looking at you cameras lcd thinking wow this is easy, they look good. So, you get home put them on your computer, then it hits you all the photos are overly grainy and out of focus. What do you do?
Speaking of updating firmware… While you are showing us how to update the cameras, why not go ahead and show how to update the firmware on the SB-900 as well.
Thanks, and keep it up guys!
Steven
Hi
Just I have a quesiton, Why you never talk about D70 or D70s? I use a D300 and D70s
Regards
Hey Matt and Scott,
Great Time Lapse tip!
I’ve an idea for the people who don’t have QuickTime Pro, but who do want to make Time Lapse Movies.
If you have the new iMovie and a version of iPhoto, you can do it this way:
First I just import all the JPeg’s into iPhoto and make an event for them.
Next I open iMovie (I use ‘09, but I don’t know if this will work with older versions).
Now it’s Time to make a new project. (File>New Project, or command-N) and name it something like Time Lapse. Very Important now, right-click or command-click in the middle of you new project and choose: Project Properties. ( This is where I went wrong before). A pop-up dialog-box will appear with 2 tabs. One is called ‘General’ and the other is called ‘Timing’. Click on ‘Timing’. Somewhere in that tab, there is an option called ‘initial photo placement’. Default it’s set to Ken-Burns. You have to set it to ‘fit in frame’. (It’s very irritating if you’ve got to delete the ken-burns effect in every photo!) Now you can click ‘Ok’. At this point you can insert the pictures in the project. To do this, just click on the ‘photo browser’ which you can find in the lower right corner (or just type command-2). Now you have to select all the photos in the iPhoto event you created and drag and drop them into the project. Now dubble-click on one of the photos in the project and a new pop-up dialog will appear. You have to set the duration to 0,1s. This is way to long, but we can’t get shorter at this point (We’ll solve this in a minute). Unless you like to set the duration of every photo to 0,1s, make sure to check ‘applies to all stills’. Now we have a very slow movie. We’ll fix that by exporting the movie (Share>Export Movie, or command-E) Choose the size you like and save it somewhere you won’t lose it. Now make a new project in iMovie (I called mine ‘Time Lapse Final’) and import the movie we’ve just exported. (File>import>Movies…) iMovie will ask you some questions about in which event and at what size you want to import. This is really up to you. Now drag and drop the entire clip into the new project and double-click it. Another pop-up dialog bow will appear and you’ll see a large bottom called ‘convert entire clip’. Click it and wait a moment. After a while a new slider will appear. On one end there is a turtle and on the other is a rabbit. Move the slider more to the rabbit to speed things up. Now you’re done and you can export it.
This seems a very long thing to do, but it really isn’t that long. (And it’s free if you have a Mac!)
Greetings,
Vince
Will these tips work on my Olympus OM-1?
Great tip on embedding copyright into image file information. Can you explain what a photographer needs to do to register copyrights on pictures. Is it enough to simply embed it in the file?
Talking about remote flash again, I was wondering if changing the flash compensation while in using the CLS does anything? Going into the menu every time to adjust the remote flash power is a pain
Thanks for the show!
Great show! I learn something new every time. Thanks
Hi guys,
Would it be possible to see a segment on the Nikon teleconverters? The TC-17E or TC-20E. Thier capabilities, thier short comings, thier value to the budget conscious. Thanks
Hello gents,
What is the most time/noise efficient way to take long exposures for star trails? There are 3 options for noise reduction and another for long exposure noise reduction.
Great stuff as usual.
How about the rumors about the D400 – just rumors or is it really going to happen soon?
Another winner fellas! Scott, way to stand up for your wardrobe preference – keep rockin’ those black T’s!
hi Scott,your black shirt is perfectly nice~!Don’t worry about the color of your shirt,your tips amazed me~!!Keep on rocking,you and Matt are my man~!
If you make a mistake when inputting copyright info how do you correct the information. I can’t find a delete or empty scape button.
How do you correct a mistake in the copyright field
I liked the camera strap tip. As a D300 user, I had installed my straps that way, except for the rubber ring part (I didn’t have it all the way up)! However, the video was so dark that anyone without the instructions will probably have a hard time getting it…
LOL you don’t own ONE non black shirt? That’s pretty funny =P
Great show, though one thing i would have liked was a close up on Scott showing exactly how to attatch teh strap through the plastic loop thing, the lighting and detail on that wasn’t the best.
Too bad I didn’t use my best Julia Childs voice! I sort of came across like that a bit!
To see an example of how the strap attaches here’s a link to it in the D300 manual…
http://www.nikonusa.com/pdf/manuals/noprint/D300_noprint.pdf
It’s on page 19.
I really like your vodcasts – very professional, great information – I look forward to every one. Only suggestion I’d make is that you have room to zoom in on the two-shot so there’s more ‘talent’ and less background (especially if you switch to a single tier desk). Having the hosts larger on screen would make the videos even better IMO.
Cheers!
You guys are putting out a really great show! It is not only entertaining, but informative also. I’m thinking seriously of buying into the Kelby training series as a result of your show. I’ve learned some cool tips watching and hoping to learn more.
Thank you
Great job guys. I know how hard it is to make this look that easy. And thanks so much for helping me figure out what that screw was for on the SD-9! Now if I could only remember where I put it
Another great show! Thanks for including the pdf! Can’t wait for the firmware episode _ mine is not current and I’ve been afraid to touch it. Scott – I know you do a lot of awesome action photos. Will you talk about the autofucus modes and number of autofocus points and whether or not to use 3D tracking please.
The copyright information would be even more useful if flickr didn’t strip it when resizing your uploaded images!
Matt,
On the JPEG’s for your time lapse segment that you allowed me to download, what was the interval you used for those shots at Arches National Park? Thanks.
Ha ha…that blurred out copyright name so said Brad Moore. Now I know who does all the work…j/k
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New D90 owner & I just found you guys. Loving your show and I’ve started watching from Episode #1 so I don’t miss a thing. I’m someone who actually reads the manual, and even with that, I’ve already learned such great tips from DTown–just want to say thank you! I hope to get to one of your training seminars at some point in the future.
Hi Guys!
I set my copyright information but now I would like to know where I can see it? Do I have to look on Lightroom? If I post my pictures onto my website and people try to copy them, will it show the copyright info?
Hi Chris
How do you find the strap. I am also looking at purchasing one if I can find a UK Distro
Have you looked at Nikon Camera Control Pro. I use it on the D300 and it’s very good.
Nikon has Nikon Camera Control 2.
Oxford Eye Photography Solutions Software has Tether Pro, Master, and Time Lord, http://www.oxfordeye.co.uk/ .
Breeze Systems has sinle dSLR, multiple dSLR and P&S products, http://www.breezesys.com/products.htm#dslr ,
Bibble Labs professional product has tethered shooting, http://bibblelabs.com/products/bibble/specs.html .
Windows has a camera API that you can code your self or use others scripts, http://www.diyphotobits.com/download-diyphotobitscom-camera-control/
Thanks Clive,
I mentioned most of these things in the “Tips” document that I talked about and it’s available as a PDF in the download file for this show.
Matt K
I updated the firmware on my D700 and SB 900 and it was a piece of cake… but yes worthy of inclusion for an episode
All the best
Michael
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mkrphoto/
Use the button used for deleting pictures…;)
Use the trash can button
Did you watch the whole episode? Like the part where Scott says, “If you’re wondering if this works on your camera, pick it up and try it?” Just saying…
Pressing the trash can button on my D60 had no effect.
Because they’re old. same as d40x, d200, d2 ^^
Press the zoom-out button and then the 4-way button to move into the comment field. With the zoom-out button pressed you can navigate inside the comment field and position the cursor at the right spot and re-enter the text you want.
Yeah, I also have D90 and it’s not there. Is there a possibility that Nikon would join that functionality in further versions of firmware?
Still many people use them. Like I use the D80.
I also think this videos are more watched by people with less expensive camera’s.
But they do mention older/less expensive camera’s in the show!
And as they said in this show, just try the given tips on your camera, even if it is a D70 or D40.
That was not Brad’s name….
I really liked this tip and your demonstration. I’ve never used the Nikon strap because of the annoying flapping ends and it didn’t seem secure enough. I think I’ll go dig that strap out of the box and try it, ..maybe ditch the bulky strap I’m currently using. Thanks.
One thing most people don’t notice is the little icons that appear at the bottom of the camera’s back LDC screen. Those icons will appear when there’s a feature or option to make a change. For example, I’ve had new users ask how to record D90 or D5000 movies when in Live View. The icons indicated which buttons to press to start recording D-movies. Same for when editing text or viewing images, look for the little icons.