Do you want to know how to use the self-timer on your Nikon D5200?
Great, because this video is a quick, beginners tutorial on how to do just that so
don't go away
Hi I'm Barry Callister of Barry Callister Photography, founder and creator of
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notification bell. Right now - let's get into the content! Using the self-timer
on your camera is a great way to take selfies of your...self when you have got
nobody else around to take a photo for you. You can set the timer, step back into
the shot, and it'll take the photo for you. It's also a great way to take photos
when you don't want to cause camera shake. So you don't want to touch the
camera, so like for landscape photos, sunsets and things like that. So this is
really, really easy guys. All you do is hit this Shutter Mode button on top here
and this screen will pop up on your LCD screen and you've got all these choices
in here. If you scroll across to the one with the 10s on it and the little
clock symbol, that is your self timer. If you then click the OK' button, you're
good to go. You press the shutter down, you'll hear that beeping,
and you get 10 seconds to get in the shot...and it'll take your shot for you.
As easy as that?! Now if 10 seconds is not the right time
for you, you can actually set a different timer setting. So if you go into the menu
here, and you go to the Pencil icon, the Custom Setting Menu. Go across to
Timerer/AE Lock, across again with your selector switch here and down to Shutter
Rel.......ah, where am I here, sorry! Down to Self Timer, and then you go across and you've
got your Self Timer Delay here and the Number Of Shots. So you can set the timer
delay and the number of shots that you want it to take when the timer releases.
So if we go across here you can see you've got 2 seconds, 5 seconds, 10
seconds, or 20 seconds. So you can set that to whatever you like. And then your
number of shots, you've got 1-9, so it'll take the number of shots that you
set in there and to select that, press your OK button.
Those are the settings for your self timer. I'll just give you a quick tip
about taking a selfie in in this way with your self timer. What I suggest you
do is get something in the photo that you can stand next to so that you can
get your focus right, because obviously you can't be in front of the camera and
behind the camera taking focus at the same time. So in this shot here I've got
these rocks back here, so if I was going to take a photo I would stand near those
rocks. I'd focus the camera on those rocks to begin with, use an aperture
say around f/8 or something so I know that I've got a bit of a depth of field. And then
I'd focus that....lock it off onto manual focus, and then walk into the shot when
the self timer is ready to go. So have something like that in the shot that you
can focus on; a fencepost, a tree, rocks, anything like that. Something
on the ground below where you're going to stand and focus on that and you
should get a good shot every time. So there you go, that is how you set the
self timer on your Nikon D5200. I hope you get some great shots with this
technique. If you like this video, please hit that like button. If you want to
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feel like a chat. Until next time, I'm Barry Callister for Barry Callister Photography
and Photographers Freedom. Get out there, take some wicked shots. And I'll see you
soon