Hi Folks

[6muirdrive]

Most call me Billy.
My knowledge base on photography is at a 6Th Grade Level. I bought a camera that is smarter than me though. Nikon D90 with Nikkor 18-105.
Problem:
I focus in one one flower and it looks great thru viewfinder and I snap the button.
Result:
I get a great photo of that flower, but a whole bunch more flowers around it? I have tried the portrait setting, and this does not improve it enough to talk about.
I still have my Minolta 7000 and use it, but even using 300 lens, I do get what I see thru viewfinder. I expect that from this camera, and something is way wrong. It might be my fault, but on auto, I feel I should be able to take a photo of flower thats 3 inches in diameter when such flower is all I see in the viewfinder. Am I wrong?

[Krusty79]

I have a Canon, but what you see in the viewfinder should be very close to the picture you get. You can also try composing your shot in Live View mode. That will give you a larger preview image.

You can also check your manual for any viewfinder settings you may have accidentally changed.

[Michael_2010]

Isn't the D90's viewfinder rated to show about 96% of what the sensor will pick up? Could that account for the difference, or is it much greater than that?

[IABoomer]

Most cameras don't show 100% of the image in the viewfinder, so if you compose with the edges of your flower touching the edges of the frame in the viewfinder window, you'll still have a little margin around the subject.

You can either compose a little tighter in the viewfinder where it looks like you're cutting things off and experiment to see how far you can go before you actually cut off your subject, or you can crop the image to the way you want it after you get the pictures off the camera and onto the computer.