hi all,
were to start, long story shot a friend of a firend has been the photographer in a bar/club for the past year, he's wanting to step back from it as its taking up to much of his spare time, he heard that i was into photography and got in contact to see if i was interested in taking over from him.
naturally i jumped at the chance. (getting paid to do something i really enjoy, who wouldn't) so i started friday night, going around with him, showing me the ropes and introducing me to all the staff and managers/owner. i had a fantasic night!
it was a bit intimidating at first going up to strangers asking if i could take their pictures, once i got the first few out of the way i soon got into the swing of things, and shout outs from the dj helped.
when it got to peak time and the drinks were flowing people were coming up to me asking to have there pictures taken, which made things easier.
from the firday night i took around 200 pictures of which only 30 get used for the website. they want pictures to be taken in a certain way. they want the people to be light up and a black back round.
this is a good example of one.
this is the kind of thing they dont want.
at the moment im using the built in flash as i dont have a flash gun, but i've ordered one. (nikon sb600, was all i could afford at the moment, hopefully it will be ok???)
most of the pictures were taken at the lowest aperture i had F3.5/4 with a 1/500 shutter speed and -1.3/1.7ev flash.
i uped the shutter speed as fast as it would go to try and reduce light and had to play about with the flash quite a bit to get the dark back round.
i found i was constintaly changing the settings as the light changes so much every were you walk. compensating for the light was the hardest thing.
at the dance floor there's lots of strobes and lighting effects, what id like to do is get some of these into the shots, how ever using flash and the fast shutter speed makes this impossible.
i had a play with some longer exposures and started using curtain/rear flash
which gave me these.
however using these setting on people didnt work to well as after the first flash most people think the picture is done and start to move, then suddenly a second flash goes off and the picture comes out "ghosty"
i've still got loads to learn and cant wait to have a play with my new flash. i'll be doing it every friday and saturday night, so i'll have plenty of practise time.
if any one has any advise/tips for shooting in low light conditions please im all ears.
thanks.
heres a few of my favorites, hope you enjoy
Dan
were to start, long story shot a friend of a firend has been the photographer in a bar/club for the past year, he's wanting to step back from it as its taking up to much of his spare time, he heard that i was into photography and got in contact to see if i was interested in taking over from him.
naturally i jumped at the chance. (getting paid to do something i really enjoy, who wouldn't) so i started friday night, going around with him, showing me the ropes and introducing me to all the staff and managers/owner. i had a fantasic night!
it was a bit intimidating at first going up to strangers asking if i could take their pictures, once i got the first few out of the way i soon got into the swing of things, and shout outs from the dj helped.
when it got to peak time and the drinks were flowing people were coming up to me asking to have there pictures taken, which made things easier.
from the firday night i took around 200 pictures of which only 30 get used for the website. they want pictures to be taken in a certain way. they want the people to be light up and a black back round.
this is a good example of one.
this is the kind of thing they dont want.
at the moment im using the built in flash as i dont have a flash gun, but i've ordered one. (nikon sb600, was all i could afford at the moment, hopefully it will be ok???)
most of the pictures were taken at the lowest aperture i had F3.5/4 with a 1/500 shutter speed and -1.3/1.7ev flash.
i uped the shutter speed as fast as it would go to try and reduce light and had to play about with the flash quite a bit to get the dark back round.
i found i was constintaly changing the settings as the light changes so much every were you walk. compensating for the light was the hardest thing.
at the dance floor there's lots of strobes and lighting effects, what id like to do is get some of these into the shots, how ever using flash and the fast shutter speed makes this impossible.
i had a play with some longer exposures and started using curtain/rear flash
which gave me these.
however using these setting on people didnt work to well as after the first flash most people think the picture is done and start to move, then suddenly a second flash goes off and the picture comes out "ghosty"
i've still got loads to learn and cant wait to have a play with my new flash. i'll be doing it every friday and saturday night, so i'll have plenty of practise time.
if any one has any advise/tips for shooting in low light conditions please im all ears.
thanks.
heres a few of my favorites, hope you enjoy
Dan
