D7100 live view function

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shanerichard

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Hi,
I'm going to start up as a real estate photographer and I want to use my D7100 for this role. My question relates to the live view feature on this camera.

Last week I went out with the guy that I'll be working for and he was using a canon for this task. In this role he takes a series of 9 images at different exposures of one composition and then uses a program to blend these images via HDR.

The technique he uses is he'll use the canon's equivalent of live view to compose the image. Then he places a 3 exposure bracket marks along the exposure indicator on the screen. The canon has a tool where you can scroll these bracket marks along the exposure indicator so if you say want an underexposed bracket set you scroll the bracket marks to the underexposed side of the meter. With this in mind, he takes 3 sets of 3 bracketed exposures (he sets them by scrolling the bracket marks along the exposure indicator) of the one composition (totalling 9). The 1st set is underexposed, the 2nd is around the correct exposure mark, and the last set is over. When he scrolls the bracket marks along the meter the live view screen also shows the changes in exposure live.

I've looked through the D7100 manual & I can't find a way to replicate these factors on my camera. Does anyone know if this is possible (eg. live view showing exposure changes & being able to place bracket marks along the exposure indicator)?

Cheers

Shane
 
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480sparky

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He's taking three sets of three bracketed exposures? The D7100 can easily do that... just hold down the BKT button on the front of the camera and turn the rear command dial to the right and you'll get the Bracket icon in the top right of the liveview image. Hold down the BKT button and turn the front command dial to set your EV range from 1/3, 2/3, 1, 2 or 3 EVs. The EV range will appear in the bottom right.


Now just take 9 frames. You'll have 3 sets of 3 bracketed exposures.
 
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yauman

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What Sparky said! HDR shooting (aka Bracketing) has nothing to do with Live View. Bracketing is bracketing. With the D7100, you can even combine Bracketing with the CL continuous mode. After you set how many images you want to bracket, say 3, then go to the CL setting and set to shoot 3 frames. Now every time you press the shutter ONCE you get 3 bracketed shots!!! Cool?

Here's a 3 bracketed HDR image (-1, 0, +1 ev) shot with just ONE press of the shutter button and processed with a Lightroom Plugin called Enfuse. (Note car outside window moved in the 3 shots - embarrassing mistake; should have set to shoot higher FPS!!!)
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

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This sounds like a company I talked to once. They are taking three different views of the room (BKT)of each view and then blending them in a panorama for a view of the room that a customer can explore online. You are using a very wide angle lens to shoot with. They have very specific guidelines for you to use to fit into their software.

Good Luck
 
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Philnz

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When I was doing real estate. I and i needed a shot of the view from say a window + the inside of the room I used to Zoom to the outside Lock the exposure, set force flash then zoom back to wide angle in order to take in the room. worked very well. Not sure why you need to use 9 bracketed shots, sounds a bit over the top to me.. Here is a quick shot of my lounge no. PP straight from the camera did not even set the WB. for flash.
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Philnz

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Don Kuykendall said:
This sounds like a company I talked to once. They are taking three different views of the room (BKT)of each view and then blending them in a panorama for a view of the room that a customer can explore online. You are using a very wide angle lens to shoot with. They have very specific guidelines for you to use to fit into their software.

Good Luck
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You did this with a tripod. pan around the room. taking as many shots as required then stitch them together to form a 360 pan of the room when uploaded to web site you can scroll right round 360 degrees as if you are standing in the center of the room. Used to be called a "Virtual Tour" Once you are set up for it it's easy. I used to use a indexing head on a tripod with a camera set up all the time just for that job.
 
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yauman

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Philnz said:
When I was doing real estate. I and i needed a shot of the view from say a window + the inside of the room I used to Zoom to the outside Lock the exposure, set force flash then zoom back to wide angle in order to take in the room. worked very well. Not sure why you need to use 9 bracketed shots, sounds a bit over the top to me.. Here is a quick shot of my lounge no. PP straight from the camera did not even set the WB. for flash.
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No a criticism but I guess it depends on the type of real estate being sold. When selling US$15 million homes in So. California, the rooms are too big to use flash. I've tried flash once with 4 SB900's and the photo was rejected because the under side of the tables and top of cushions of the dining chairs were not properly lit. Worse part about using flash is that the recess lights will not be prominently highlighted, swamped by the flash. Here's what is acceptable - barely - in So. Cal (the pics are taken by my brother-in-law- he uses only 2 image bracket HDR.) When I do big rooms like this, HDR is the only way to go - HDR-Panorama requires multiple HDR images to be stitched together. Flash would overwhelm the reflections and details behind the glass walls will be lost. Btw, all my shots are done tethered so I never use live-view; I'm quite blind so I have to see the images on my 15" MacBookPro screen when doing high precision work. I almost always do 3-bracket but sometime I can get away with 2.
 
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shanerichard

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Hi 480Sparky,
Yeah he's taking 3 sets of 3 bracketed exposures. I'm already aware of how to change the bracketing via live view. What he's able to do on the Canon though is scroll the bracket marks along the exposure indicator line. So if he wants to under expose he shifts the marks to along the indicator line to where it'll be under exposed. Is this possible?
 
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shanerichard

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Hi Yauman,
I've found an alternative to your method. Another great way to take bracketed shots without holding on to the camera, as I want to eliminate any touching of the camera whilst it's shooting. I've set the camera to take 5 bracketed shots. In the custom settings, I've gone to self timer (c3) and I've set it to a 2 second delay and selected 5 shots. I press the shutter and 2 seconds later the camera takes 5 bracketed shots. It works great!
I could do the same with 3 sets of bracketed shots too if I wanted too, but I'd only do that if I find a quick way of scrolling my bracket marks along the exposure indicator in Liveview, then selected my set, take the shots and then do the next two sets. If anyone could work that one out that'll be great.
 
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Philnz

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yauman said:
No a criticism but I guess it depends on the type of real estate being sold. When selling US$15 million homes in So. California, the rooms are too big to use flash. I've tried flash once with 4 SB900's and the photo was rejected because the under side of the tables and top of cushions of the dining chairs were not properly lit. Worse part about using flash is that the recess lights will not be prominently highlighted, swamped by the flash. Here's what is acceptable - barely - in So. Cal (the pics are taken by my brother-in-law- he uses only 2 image bracket HDR.) When I do big rooms like this, HDR is the only way to go - HDR-Panorama requires multiple HDR images to be stitched together. Flash would overwhelm the reflections and details behind the glass walls will be lost. Btw, all my shots are done tethered so I never use live-view; I'm quite blind so I have to see the images on my 15" MacBookPro screen when doing high precision work. I almost always do 3-bracket but sometime I can get away with 2.
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Point taken. Most of our homes are not that large.and at least my photos were hell of a lot better than those taken by the agent, with their point & shoot cameras.
 
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