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SHOOT WITH A PRO<br />
Top gear #3<br />
Camera bag<br />
“I got this Lowepro<br />
Off-Road LP 106 camera bag<br />
for £10 from a charity shop.<br />
I prefer this shape of bag,<br />
and it’s easy to access all my<br />
kit – with two big lenses in<br />
each end, and a spare body<br />
in the middle. It’s not too<br />
huge, and I can wear it as a<br />
giant bumbag if I want to<br />
commit a massive fashion<br />
faux pas!” laughs Nina.<br />
AF point display<br />
Nina set up Paul’s<br />
camera so he was<br />
using Single-point<br />
AF mode, and got<br />
him to compose<br />
with his AF point<br />
over the subject’s<br />
eyes. “This ensures<br />
sharper shots than<br />
if you focus with the<br />
central AF point<br />
then recompose,<br />
which at f/2.8 can throw your focusing off after the slight<br />
movement as you reposition the camera. I also switched<br />
on AF Point Display, so when you’re reviewing images on<br />
your LCD, you can check to see what you’ve focused on.”<br />
Make the most<br />
of group shots<br />
“When photographing<br />
the family as a group, get<br />
them to squeeze tightly<br />
together for a better pose<br />
and shape that’s not so<br />
spread out. Get the family<br />
to mess about – dad<br />
tickling the kids works<br />
well, rather than posed,”<br />
says Nina. “When in a pile<br />
together, it’s a good<br />
opportunity to grab some<br />
close-up headshots of<br />
each subject, especially<br />
if the kids look more<br />
comfortable sat with the<br />
family so you get better<br />
facial expressions. These<br />
can look nice in blackand-white,<br />
as the faces<br />
stand out against<br />
everybody else’s clothes.”<br />
EXPERT inSIGHT<br />
Back-button<br />
focus<br />
“I use the back-button<br />
focusing method as I find it’s<br />
faster and more accurate as<br />
I’m constantly refocusing as<br />
families move around and<br />
kids fidget,” says Nina. “In the<br />
Custom Function menu on Paul’s 70D, we set up his camera so the AF-On<br />
button is exclusively used to focus – you need to disengage focusing from<br />
half-pressing the shutter button, so that it’s only used for metering. Once you<br />
get used to back-button focusing, I guarantee that you’ll never go back!”<br />
Top gear #4<br />
Memory<br />
cards<br />
“I keep my<br />
memory cards<br />
in this trusty<br />
blue box. As<br />
my 5D Mark III cameras have dual slots,<br />
I use the CF card to record Raws, and<br />
the SD card to record JPEGS as backup.<br />
I rarely look at the JPEGS, but they’re<br />
available should I never need them.<br />
And if a card ever lets me down I’ll bin<br />
it straight way,” advises Nina.<br />
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