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  • thanks for explaining. :-)

  • Isnt the D90 disappointing it only allows you 3, -2 +2 and 0. Fore nice HDR images 5, 7 or even 9 images can be interesting for your bracketing.

  • Interesting comment worth some thought. Until you brought it up, I never gave it much thought, but you are right. There are newer model cameras that can give you more flexibility with bracketing. Is it possible you can sell your D90 and get one of those?

  • @jonvideo sure one can always sell the camera and get for example the D300 which gives you 9 steps of bracketing but then you should consider: The camera loses a lot of the value in the moment you have bought it and then want to sell it.

    For HDR also RAW shooting might be interesting because it gives you naturally more colour depth.

  • Awesome tutorial! well explained without overwhelming the viewer!

  • Thank you sooo much for this video. For the longest time, I didn't understand bracketing. Even in my photo class, it went in one ear and out the other.

  • I hope I can explain. Number of Frames is a +ve number; however Exposure Compensation could be -ve, +ve or 0. if you select Bracketing as 2F with EC -2.0, and take couple of shots, you will get images with EC values 0EV and -2EV. There will not be any image with +2EV. Similar explanation for 2F and EC +2EV. if you want Underexposed, Neutral and Overexposed Image then number of Frames to 3F and whatever EC you desire. I hope it makes sense

  • lol cheers I'm at uni and this helps more than reading a manual :P

  • I dont understand what the -2 and 2 are doing. I get that 3 takes 3 frames but what do those other numbers do?

  • what does two frames + and two frames - mean?

  • How do i get the DVDs in UK?

  • You can order at elitevideo com website and we ship to the uk

  • Thanks that's dead useful. Wanted to play with bracketing while on holiday recently inside some ruined castles, wasn't sure why it wasn't working!

  • what do you mean when you say that one can choose 2frames plus and minus 2frames? It makes no sense. The amount of frames should be positive, not negative...

  • Thank you!

  • @mrct50 i do believe our difference among simply semi professional and professional is little these days. d7000 is perhaps all we all want. visit... freedslr . c0m change 0 with o and take the chance to bring home completely new Nikon D7000

  • One question - you mentioned early in your video "if you're in the single shot mode."

    How do you shoot in a "multiple shot" mode, or is there such an animal with the D90? With my D50, in bracketing, it shot all three pics at once with one press of the shutter. Can you do the same in D90? If so, what is it called and where do I set that on the menu?

  • Thanks for the video. Concise and to the point. I'm brand new to photography and I understood it perfectly fine and was able to immediately set this on my camera. I don't know why a few others are bitching about it, I found it to be EXACTLY what I was looking for. Off to create my first HDR.... exciting :)

  • very useful explanation. Thxm

  • An easier way to take 03 bracketed shots with the same composition is to set the camera on a tripod, compose the shot, and go to the timer menu in the D90. There you have an option to set the number of shots to be taken once the timer is done.

    So combined with the 3 bracket option and the 3 shots in the timer menu, you'll get the exact same composition but with 3 different exposures.

    Also when in bracketing selection mode, the front wheel of your D90 helps you adjust exposure levels per shot.

  • The way you explain things makes it very easy to learn. Thank you very much for the videos!

  • So what is the ev button for?

  • hi ser, can i know what mode you choose for this bkt?

  • Good video, made it that little bit clearer to me!

  • ok, it is not complicated at all...one question, when you shoot the three shots, do you need to be depressing the bkt button for each shot? or does it mean that since you used the bkt button and set your parameters then the next three ( if you chose three) shots will be bracketed even if you let go of the bkt button? thanks.

  • You should be able to just do in tone. Let me know if this is not that case, But I'm pretty sure once will do it.

  • Can you take the bracketing exposures by using the ML-L3 wireless remote. I set up the bracketing first and when I went to the wireless mode it only took one shot.

  • @drgolfer1

    Think you still have to manually take the three shots...

  • It does not cover the topic !

  • It's really not fair, We give you enough to get interested so you buy the dvd. Sort of a trick and I feel a bit bad about it. If for some reason you lost your job or can't afford the 2 dvd set, (D90 made easy) let us know and we will send it to you at a price you can afford or free if needed. - John PS please subscribe to this channel if you can.

  • @jonvideo hey jon! dont feel bad about it at all, this is nothing compared to what major companies do these days to get their money, so their CEO's can get the extra cash and buy their spoiled kids the lambo they didnt deserve and work their ass off for.. your videos are great! keep up the work!

  • Great tip, John!

  • Is bracketing used for HDR images? and can you set the D90 to take more that 3 bracketed images?

    Many thanks!!

  • Yes, Exposure bracketing is. I think you can only set it for 3, but check your custom menus, perhaps you can do more.

  • @jonvideo

    Much appreciated.

    Cheers!!

  • @jonvideo Cheers!

  • @FirebrandNIRE - You can do this by setting your EV to -1, bracketing 3 shots, change EV to 0, Bracket 3 shots and then change ev to +1 and bracket 3 more shots. You end up with -3,-2,-1,0,+1,+2,+3) and an extra -1,+1 which you can just delete. ** I read this from a more advanced photographer, I'm rather new myself, but it makes sense. Hope that helps.

  • Cheers!!!

  • I still don't know why you'd use this if your shooting in RAW. You can practically fix anything in RAW

  • I understand what you are saying. You are right. Keep in mind though, many people don't want to spend the time later post processing or have the software for it. , Also some people shoot in continous shooting mode, if they shoot in raw, it would slow down the frames per second.

  • I HAVE QUESTION PLS! I NEED ANSWRES .. IM A STUDENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND I DONT KNOW HOW TO ADJUST THE CONTRAST.. ANYBODY? PLS.. IM USING NIKON D90! THNX!

  • Do you want more or less contrast?

  • @jonvideo more contrast! ;)) thanks 4 the reply sir..

  • I will go back next and look at our dvd set. It has been a while since we did that video so I forgot. I will let you know then.

  • @jonvideo thankyou so much sir! i'll wait for that ;)

  • I'm pretty busy till Wednesday, but will check then.

  • Or, instead of using bracketing why just not shoot in RAW and use something like adobe lightroom afterwards to change exposure !!!!!!!

  • I don't know if that is an equal substitution, it would seem to be,but is there some drawback I am not thinking of? I would love anyone else to weight in on this issue.

  • I just bought the D90, and was about to use this tutorial to set up for HDR, but my bracketing options are greyed out in the menu. When I click them, it says 'this option is not available with current settings'. I searched for a resolution (for the last 2 hours!) and could only find advice that battery needs to be fully charged. I did that and it has not helped. Any ideas??

  • Change the dial to another setting on the top of your camera, that should solve the problem. Let me know either way how it works for you.

  • Haha, awesome response!

  • Hehe, Awesome reply!

    I bought myself the D90, an really great camera.

    Trying really hard to learn HDR. Nice vid! Keep up this good job!

  • Thanks for the reply about my reply- Glad you are learning HDR, a fun area to try to master, There is alot of good tuturials on HDR (High dynamic range photography- for those who are curious)- on the web and youtube. Email us a sample if and when you do one that you love. Please tell your photo friends about this channel and have them subscribe also- John

  • whats up with the pornmusic?

  • The real question should be, why are they stealing OUR music and what have you been watching?

  • Finally learned this! Thanks! HDR will be a lot easier now

  • im going to use this feature to make HDR images.... this will make things so much easier... would you recommend one or two stops either way for a normal HDR... thanks for the help!

  • I like 2 stops, I think it gives you more room for adjustment. in post production- John

  • You can record the menu screen by taking the video output and putting it though a converter and into your computer. We did this video with the composite output into a Tricaster mixer and out to a Sony firewire converter and into our computer, editing in Sony Vegas

  • how is the cameras screen recorde in this?

  • Great explanation! I really liked it, thank you!

  • Most helpful.

  • Very very useful. Thank you so much :-)

  • superb explanation ! I did know about bracketing. Thanks guys !

  • Thanks, Im glad we could help.

  • Very straightforward, clear explanation.  Thank you for your great effort to produce this and your other informative videos! Keep up the good work, and I hope your efforts produce significantly to your business cash flow.

  • Thanks, These small videos lead some to buy the 2 dvd sets from our elitevideo dot com website, Plus a little from adsense, hope you subscribe.- John

  • Really great tutorial! I have a little problem though. When I go to "Bracketing/Flash" and then "e4 Auto bracketing set", it says "This option is not available with current settings"! What settings is the camera referring to? Help me please, I'm stuck...

  • Try turing your dial on top . I think anything other than the p or the fully automatic setting should work.

  • @jonvideo  Thanks for the quick reply, it worked!

  • awesome tutorial!!! will you please do one on depth of field using a nikon d90 pleeeease????!!!!!

  • I will try to get one up sometime, Glad you like this one

  • Very nice. Finally got me to understand how bracketing works on the d90. One question however. Either in CSh or CSl the camera will not fire off the 3 frames automatically. I still have to hit the shutter 3 times. Is there another setting that needs to be turned on?

  • best video for bracketing on d90, thank you

  • If you want to shoot in manual made you don't want to the camera to include it's metered version. In manual will it automatically fire of 3 pics at the increments you chose regardless of the meter starting where you want?

  • thanks for video

  • i just learned something thank you!

  • Thank you so much for all those precious information. You are truly a live safer.

  • This is the best Bracketing how to video for the Nikon on YouTube.

  • Thanks for the nice complements!

  • This is a great video like all the others. Thanks.

  • Very easy and straightforward to follow, thanks for helping out a noob.

  • No problem, you are not a noob, keep on practicing, you should be a d90 expert in no time! Make sure you subscribe too.

  • Thanks for fantastic tips

    but using a flash i didnot see the bracketing difference is there any reason?

  • Thanks, your video was of great help. While trying it on my camera, i had earlier left the ex.comp at -2. So while bracketing at MTR-UNR-OVR it became -2,-4,0 with a 2 stop bracketing. I had to change the ex.comp back to ZERO first. You may add it as a annotation. Thanks.

  • Thanks for this, and all your other D90 videos. They're nicely presented and in nice bite-size chunks, where I can maintain concentration and absorb the info!

    I've had my D90 for just two weeks and through your videos I'm still finding features I wasn't aware of!

  • That is a great tip, thanks for posting it. What a great shortcut.

  • To turn off bracketing if you dont want it anymore, simply hold down the BKT button and turn the rear dial so that it says 0F (0 frames). The bracketing symbol will disappear and you're shooting normally again!

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  • Can some tell me if you have to reset your camera once you do the shots in bracketing so say I turn my camera on to take photos will it keep doing bracketed or will it shoot normal again ? I hope this makes sense lol :) Thanks ahead of time :)

  • It will keep doing bracketing until you reset it in the menu. It won't revert back to normal by just turning it off, you have to change the menu back again( The reverse of what we showed here)

  • The best on youtube-watched 3 & understood nothing until I watched yours-Thank you!

  • Thanks for the nice complement. You may also enjoy the dvds if you want to go more indepth

  • I found your videos a massive help, i bought a nikon d90 at the weekend and i find this much easier to use compared to using the manual.

    Thanks

  • ya, reading is hard! lol

  • Thank you! Great Video

  • thanks alot for this

  • Great.... This is what I was looking..... Thanks for uploading :)

  • holy shit :)

  • Had the camera for two years and never figured this out. Thanks, 5 Stars.

  • I just tried this, it was really helpful. Thanks. :)

  • i'm getting a D90 next month as my BONUS!! hahaha... let's share more!!!

  • Just got my D90 yesterday. When I try to set menu functions e1-e6 (under bracketing/flash) they are grayed out and it says "this option is not available with current setting." I'm not sure what setting that is. I'm sure it's operator error -- can anyone help?

  • Likely because you have the camera set in AUTO, in which setting the camera handles all exposure and focus requirements. Switch to P (or A or S) and you should be able to auto bracket.

  • @gortwein are you on P

  • youre probably on automatic i guess it has to be manual

  • im getting the d90 as a christmas gift!

  • me too :D

  • i seriously can't wait X00000

  • i might get this camera in a few months

  • Very clear and informative - not plastic like some others. Great for the experience and novice photographer.

  • great video

  • great video, and here i was creating HDR's with ghosting.

  • great vids.... discovering things on my cam i didnt even know i had! but thats what you get when you buy such a nice camera while being a total noob at photography :P

  • thank you

  • so it can only bracket 3 frames?

  • excellent tutorial. thank you.

  • VERY good video. Bracketing is essential for HDR photography and this makes it quick so you can shoot without a tripod. 5-star!

  • This Video is Million worth...........

  • LOL to Kevin Spacey comment... that's what I was thinking

  • Bearded Kevin Spacey?

  • perfect, this is what i'm looking for.

    thanks

  • I just bought my D90, and I must say these video tutorials are an excellent introduction!

  • THANK YOU!

  • Ahhh such a lifesaver! I've been trying to figure this out for a while and to think it was so easy to begin with! Thank you :D

  • hi I tried to do exactly what you say but I can only get one picture instead of 3.. is there something wrong with my camera?

  • oops now I know, need to hold the shutter release a bit longer haha, thanks for the great vid

  • Glad you got it.

  • i tried it too and only getting 1 shot... and if i hold button longer, nothing happens. Do i take 3 separate shots, or i have to do bracketing together with Continuous Low mode. If Continuous-Low mode, do i have to release the button in time so i dont take the 4th shot, or it won't alow me to take the 4th?

  • Perhaps if you set the shutter to continuous and held it down you'd get the 3 shots in rapid succession.

  • With the flash and exposure mode combination does that mean that the flash strength will increase and decrease giving three different exposures as well then?

  • WIth flash comp, it will take 3pictures with flash at 3 levels. If the flash is more powerful, the exposure of the subject will be greater but not necessarily the whole picture exposure. Yes, you get a different exposure, but mainly on what the flash is hitting. Some skin tones look more natural with less flash, the camera exposure will compensate for the less flash. If you are in shade where backlight is bright more or less flash may make it look more natural, this is where it helps.

  • what it bracketing

  • He explains it in the first minute of the video. But explained in a different way- Bracketing allows you get three pictures instead of one, so you can choose, later, the one that was exposed the best (if it is exposure bracketing) or 3 shots of slightly different color temp, (for white balance bracketing). Sometimes its easier back at home on the computer to see the proper exposure or color, that is one reason why you would use bracketing, to make sure the important shot is done right.

  • Wish there was focus bracketing...

  • f/36 ... maybe?

  • Ever heard of diffraction? Also the needed amount of light would be tremendous.

    There are by the way a few cameras with focus bracketing. I'd love to see that on a Nikon.

  • do u have to manually shoot 3 times? isint there an option for it to take 3 pictures automaticly when you shoot? correct me if im wrong plz

  • just set your drive mode to continuous low or continuous high shooting (4.5fps). that way you only press the shutter once and hold it.

  • Ahh.. that is the answer I was looking for!!!! Thanks!

  • Thanks! I have an old D70 but still found this video helpful. I wasn't really sure what bracketing was.

  • me encanto thanks

  • awesome but can you tell me how to autobracket?

  • Thanks, very informative video.

  • a big, big help. thanks

  • Thanks!

  • Thanks alot! Great help!

  • Great video thanks alot, finaly someone explained it simple and easy to understand.

  • Very informative! Thank you!

  • Thank you so much! It helped me a lot, i was finding it very hard to find out how to do this for HDRs (like the other comment).

  • Thanks, I'm using braketed photos for HDR photos and this was very helpful.

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