i dunno if this have been asked before or it is a noob question.
i was at a hotel wedding dinner. although the photographer have a flash attached to his cam, he seldom use his flash. the hotel ballroom set-up was warm light. is he using those 85mm 1.4, 50mm 1.4 lenses?
i dunno if this have been asked before or it is a noob question.
i was at a hotel wedding dinner. although the photographer have a flash attached to his cam, he seldom use his flash. the hotel ballroom set-up was warm light. is he using those 85mm 1.4, 50mm 1.4 lenses?
he can bump up his ISO, tweak the white balance later.
anyway, even with flash, most of the time for ballroom, you have bump up iso to expose the background. a flash is not a sunlight replacement.
he can bump up his ISO, tweak the white balance later.
anyway, even with flash, most of the time for ballroom, you have bump up iso to expose the background. a flash is not a sunlight replacement.
serametin: Yes, the photographer is shooting with ambient light. Mostly Iso1600-3200 at f1.4-f2 with prime lens.
For most ballrooms, you need to shoot at the correct white balance to get the image. The image is almost near impossible to rescue if you shoot at AWB and try to tweak later on.
serametin: Yes, the photographer is shooting with ambient light. Mostly Iso1600-3200 at f1.4-f2 with prime lens. The flash is for people who suddenly come up to you and ask for a group photo or if the photog feels there's a wall close enough to bounce the flash off.
more of a raw shooter than a jpg shooter.
anything go back then tweak color.
cos most of the time, color might change, if for eg, they set to tungsten then later to cool light then to spot light... no time to change wb.
i dunno if this have been asked before or it is a noob question.
i was at a hotel wedding dinner. although the photographer have a flash attached to his cam, he seldom use his flash. the hotel ballroom set-up was warm light. is he using those 85mm 1.4, 50mm 1.4 lenses?
if you have a chance to look at the photos, try to "see" what focus length you think he shot at.
I tried a 50mm f1.4 with iso800 at a church wedding, quite like the bokeh/ ambient lightings...
u are shooting always at 1.4? or also 2 to 2.8?
1.4, 2 and 2.8....
Maybe you can just go experiment with the different settings and see the results.
Happy shooting!
u are shooting always at 1.4? or also 2 to 2.8?
yup, i know flash is not a must. i just want to find out what lenses and what settings he was at. thks for the info, i think i got a better idea now.
Just to add on, you probably would wanna shoot with a f/5.6 for group shots to keep everyone's face sharp in the picture, you'll probably need the flash to come into action then.
See what body he's using also.. It might have been a D3 and he's using ISO6400? ;p
too bad, on that day, i was too far away. but he was using two camera, one with a flash, one was without. i maybe wrong, but from far and from the size, it don't look like d3 to me.