Nikon D90 Frame the Photograph, Ready the camera, Frame the photograph, Using a Zoom Lens

Step 4: Frame the Photograph

1Ready the camera.

When framing photographs in the viewfinder, hold the handgrip in your right hand and cradle the camera body or lens with your left. Keep your elbows propped lightly against your torso for support and place one foot half a pace ahead of the other to keep your upper body stable. In jmode, shutter speeds slow when lighting is poor; use of a tripod is recommended.

Hold the camera as shown at right when framing photographs in portrait (tall) orientation.

For information on framing photographs in the monitor in live view mode, see page 43.

2Frame the photograph.

Frame a photograph in the viewfinder with the main subject in at least one of the eleven focus points.

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AUsing a Zoom Lens

Use the zoom ring to zoom in on the subject so that it fills a larger area of the frame, or zoom out to increase the area visible in the final photograph (select longer focal lengths on the lens focal length scale index to zoom in, shorter focal lengths to zoom out).

Focus point

Zoom in

Zoom ring

Zoom out

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