I’ve recently started working as a photographer in a student organization, meaning I shoot a lot of parties indoors in dark (think almost nightclub) lightning. Often times the people and the colors turn out weird and not very pretty. I do use the built in flash and I have an external one as well just not come around to using it yet. Any tips for settings or Lightroom Classic/Photoshop Classic editing tips?
Thanks in advance!
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try experimenting with off-camera flash and diffusers to enhance your lighting, shooting in RAW will give you more flexibility in post-processing, consider using black and white to minimize digital noise, and invest time in learning Lightroom and Photoshop for effective editing. Good luck!
Examples would be helpful and potentially more efficient than you trying to describe the scene.
https://neilvn.com/tangents/flash-photography-techniques/ focuses on on-camera flash techniques. Bounce flash with your external flash and diffused flash can do a lot, though you have to learn to balance the ambience.
Built-in flashes are usually very bad. Use the external one.
Start with these settings in manual mode and experiment with them:
Camera profile set to Neutral/Flat/Cloudy. Depends on the camera.
Shutter around 80 to 200-ish. ISO somewhere between 600 and 1000. External flash (in case it supports it) set to TTL and slightly tilted backwards if there is a lower ceiling, not pointed forwards (this will cause less hard shadows).
Editing also depends on your style or desidered results. But those settings should give you a good start and some decent results (even without editing).
Thank you! I will try to figure out the external one. I’m very new to this and until I got this role (that I do for free as volunteer work) I had never shot on anything else than an iPhone so I’m trying to learn.
I will definitely experiment with the settings you mentioned!
parties in the dark are very very difficult
do what wedding photographers do and learn to use a flash. on camera flashes are usually awful.
shoot RAW+jpg. consider shooting in black and white to make digital noise less noticeable. use denoising software with your RAW photos.
if u don’t know how to do post processing, i strongly advise learning it
parties in the dark are very very difficult
do what wedding photographers do and learn to use a flash. on camera flashes are usually awful.
shoot RAW+jpg. consider shooting in black and white to make digital noise less noticeable. use denoising software with your RAW photos.
if u don’t know how to do post processing, i strongly advise learning it
Any tips for the post processing? I edit the pictures somewhat mostly rising the temperature, removing red eyes and rising or lowering the exposure
this guy is a fantastic teacher…
Built-in flashes are usually very bad. Use the external one.
Start with these settings in manual mode and experiment with them:
Camera profile set to Neutral/Flat/Cloudy. Depends on the camera.
Shutter around 80 to 200-ish. ISO somewhere between 600 and 1000. External flash (in case it supports it) set to TTL and slightly tilted backwards if there is a lower ceiling, not pointed forwards (this will cause less hard shadows).
Editing also depends on your style or desidered results. But those settings should give you a good start and some decent results (even without editing).
Examples would be helpful and potentially more efficient than you trying to describe the scene.
https://neilvn.com/tangents/flash-photography-techniques/ focuses on on-camera flash techniques. Bounce flash with your external flash and diffused flash can do a lot, though you have to learn to balance the ambience.
I’m sorry not to post examples, but there are a lot of people in these pictures and I don’t want to violate their integrity nor out my identity.
It’s the very “sweaty” look I don’t want to achieve as well as everything being very shiny or not shiny at all and just dark
You mention you are doing photography in a student organization. Perhaps there is a student photography club who has a teacher who could help or other student photographers.
Without specific examples it is hard for people to give more specific advice other than get a larger aperture lens, or learn to use flash (not the built in flash, get a hotshoe flash if you do not have one).