Doug Sahlin

If you have lush flowers or small critters in your yard or live near a botanical garden, you have a rich resource for wonderful close-up photographs on your Nikon D780. You can take a nice photograph of a flowerbed or create something really special by photographing a flower up close and personal. A close-up of a flower or a small animal like a lizard reveals the beautiful architecture of the flower, or the symmetry and unique appendages of the animal.

Photography is a wonderful pastime. You can use your Nikon D780 camera to capture memories of the things that interest you. If you’re a sports fan, you can photograph your favorite sport. You can photograph individual athletes, but sports have more to them than just the athletes. Whether your favorite sport is football or auto racing, each one has its own rituals.

Most adults spend a lot of time earning money to support their lifestyle. Some people love what they do, but other people think their 9-to-5 routine is torture. If you have a friend who fits in the former category and needs a picture of herself for business cards or passports, grab your Nikon D780 camera and use the settings in this section.

If you live near a state park or wilderness area, you can capture some wonderful photographs on your Nikon D780 camera of animals such as deer, raccoons, and otters in their natural surroundings. You can easily spook these kinds of wild animals because they’re relatively low in the food chain. They have a natural fear of humans, which means you have to be somewhat stealthy to photograph them.

On the Nikon D780, your tilting monitor can do much more than just display your images. You can get all sorts of useful information, such as the shutter speed, aperture, and other pertinent information about the image. You can even display a spiffy graph, known as a histogram, that shows the distribution of pixels from shadows to highlights.

Fortunately, it’s easy to create a multiple exposure on your Nikon D780. In fact, you can capture up to ten exposures in one image. You can also save each exposure as an NEF (RAW) file. Back in the old days, you could create a double exposure with a film camera by holding down the rewind button and then moving the film advance lever.

At some point in time, you have to transcend technology and add craft to your photography equation. When you transcend technology, you know instinctively which buttons, dials, and settings on your Nikon D780 you need to capture a specific image. After mastering that part of the equation, you add creativity into the mix.

The beauty of photographing with a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera, like the Nikon D780, is that you can change lenses to suit your creative need. When you purchase lenses for your camera, make sure they’re for the Nikon F mount. If you’re graduating from a Nikon camera that uses Dx lenses, you can use those lenses on your D780, too.