Hi,
Yesterday night I was tasked to take photographs of my hostel mate's mini-birthday celebrations... so i took out my 602 snapped on my Achiever and went off to snap some shots...
Now here's the problem I encountered,
The room was a small one with already present flourescent lighting, which would be enough lighting actually. Oh, the roof is about 3m high..
Well anyway, my auto shots turned out blurry coz they couldn't capture movements fast enough, my manual shots with flash somehow turned out mostly either under exposed or too harsh..
The under exposed shots, I fired the flash towards the ceiling thinking that it would bounce, but somehow it didn't bounce nicely for some reason.. also, pointing the flash towards the audience made the lighting look extremely artificial.
So how? Should I have used a diffuser or a bounce card as well?
Oh what f-stop should I have used considering that I needed to capture everyone's faces when they were pilled up from 2m in front of me all the way to about 6m away from me...
Any advice for a newbie?
Thanks a lot guys,
Ervine Lin
Yesterday night I was tasked to take photographs of my hostel mate's mini-birthday celebrations... so i took out my 602 snapped on my Achiever and went off to snap some shots...
Now here's the problem I encountered,
The room was a small one with already present flourescent lighting, which would be enough lighting actually. Oh, the roof is about 3m high..
Well anyway, my auto shots turned out blurry coz they couldn't capture movements fast enough, my manual shots with flash somehow turned out mostly either under exposed or too harsh..
The under exposed shots, I fired the flash towards the ceiling thinking that it would bounce, but somehow it didn't bounce nicely for some reason.. also, pointing the flash towards the audience made the lighting look extremely artificial.
So how? Should I have used a diffuser or a bounce card as well?
Oh what f-stop should I have used considering that I needed to capture everyone's faces when they were pilled up from 2m in front of me all the way to about 6m away from me...
Any advice for a newbie?
Thanks a lot guys,
Ervine Lin