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#1 syntex

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Posted 10 December 2009 - 04:19 AM

Brother is doing a whole lot more DJing now which means i can get a lot of work photographing them.

From what ive gathered most want cool action shots with the lighting and blurry effects and all that so;

What settings should I be using on my camera if anybody has experienced with these scene before, im using a Canon 500D now so any tips on how I can improve this would be sweet.

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Posted 12 December 2009 - 02:08 AM

Havent used the Canon 500D I still use a canon Powershot as I still havent found anything that compares to everything I can get from it including night settings.
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Posted 17 December 2009 - 12:04 AM

Hey syntex!
Shooting in nightclubs is a challenge. First of all you need a flash to shoot there. With 500D I believe you have a lens, that has f number like 3.5-5.6? That is ok, but also a brighter lens would be good. I don't think that you can get good photos with a built-in pop-up flash, but you could give it a try. Well, as you asked for these little blurry photos, with light effects and stuff then you need a little lower shutter speed. So you need to turn your camera to M mode... Then shutter about 1/80-1/100 - experiment, which gives you a best result, now f number, try to keep it as opened as you can so if you zoom in - then f/5.6. Pop your flash and make some test shots. Now if they are too dark, then start turning up you iso, I hope that iso400 would give good results enough, but the lower the better.

What crates motion in your pics? Shutter speed, the motion depends on how fast your subjects move, faster movements give more motion with the same shutter speed.
Light effects - well this a a theory of its own. Some effects are crated by the spotlights in club... But the main effect is crated by your flash, it pops the light on subject and draws that position sharply on the sensor, as good as it can. As flash pops on first curtain opening, then your subject can change it's positions after the flash-pop while you sensor is still recording pixels - this is what crates transparencies. You can give this a try on a simple method... Find a place somewhere dark, with some little light falling on you model. Put the model in front of the lens to stand in a light. Turn you camera to f/5.6, iso-200, shutter 2", pop-up the flash. Now as you model to quickly walk away from the picture as soon as the flash fires.

Well I hope this makes any sense... I have never shoot in nightclubs, so I just made up some theory that could work... Let me know how this turns out.
Oh yeah, using an external flashgun, like 430EX would sure give you a better results...

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Posted 21 February 2010 - 12:40 PM

First off, do you have an external flash? What I do is meter the scene using the widest aperture of my lens. Whether it be 2.8 or 3.5 then set that manually on my flash, but underexpose by about 1 1/2 to 2 stops. Then I use TTL flash. This makes the subject sharpish with a little blur, plus you get good background/ambient light. I hope this makes sense :)

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Posted 16 March 2010 - 06:35 AM

well, you need to turn your camera to M mode.




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