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08/30/2007 10:23:43 AM · #1 |
How does one do the dark rooms, neon lights, fast moving people dancing, and still get the shot without any real setup (As far as people knowing you're doing the shot and having them 'fake' their fun)
I was asked to take some pictures of a bar/club. I was planning on going to the club when it's empty and taking some still shots, but the owner wants some 'busy' shots too. Any advice. |
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08/30/2007 10:28:03 AM · #2 |
Use flash and drag the shutter.
I think i remember someone posting this before and there were some good links posted so try a forum search. |
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08/30/2007 10:34:44 AM · #3 |
Ask the club owner to buy you a nice new f1.2 lens for doing the shoot? : )
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08/31/2007 10:23:00 AM · #4 |
| Unfortunately, this shoot being paid in beers |
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08/31/2007 11:10:53 AM · #5 |
Night clubs are tough places to shoot, with the rooms being very dark usually, and the ceiling being dark as well. The best you can hope for if shooting existing light is to use your highest iso, and shutter priority at about 1/30 or 1/60. If you want to use aperture priority and shoot at max aperture, you will get more images, but a lot more will be blurred. If there is any way you can bounce flash off the ceiling it will help a lot, but may distract the patrons. Straight on flash works too, but will make the pics look "hard" instead of natural, and will cause the background light level to be a lot lower than the subjects in the flash.
Most night clubs have adjustable lighting, so you may want to see if the owner can bump up the light a little while you are shooting. If you shoot early in the evening before the patrons get too tipsy there will be less chance of getting into a scrape with them about taking their picture.
WT
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08/31/2007 02:06:40 PM · #6 |
"Use flash and drag the shutter."
That is the technique used for most of the "night club" shots you see.
Even a 1 second exposure may not be too long.
Dragging the shutter (slower shutter than you would normally use 1/8, for example w/ a flash) freezes your subject (via the flash) and the long exposure gets the ambient light along with trippy blur effects that work for pics of a night club atmosphere.
see this thread //www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=583241
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