21st Birthday

[benjo]

So after seeing my club photography eek: ), a friend asked me to take some photos at her and her friends joint 21st. They mostly wanted portrait shots of everyone..

Used a Canon 17-55 2.8 and bounced the flash. Still struggled with lighting on some of the shots, so some came out a tiny bit noisy. Here's some of the better ones;

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I was shooting wide open at 2.8 all night, and had the ISO fairly high. I missed the focus quite a lot on some of the shots though

Even with the flash, 2.8 and high ISO I was struggling to get decent exposure.

Any tips for next time?

 

[benjo]

Thanks for the comments.

Yep was shooting wide open for light reasons. The flash I had was borrowed, and it's not the greatest.

Saving pennies for more equipment, I think a flash is on the cards next

 

[benjo]

Looks good to me for next time however do not be too wary about keeping the aperture nice and wide, your flash will happily compensate for the smaller aperture. Looks like you managed to get enough ambient light in too but keeping your shutter moderately slow too so good work on that one! As has been said possibly a tighter crop may have been nice and perhaps a few black and white conversions could work well on a few of them too?

All in all looking good though!

Thanks mate I'll try a different aperture next time. I'll see how some black and white ones work too, haven't really been adventurous enough