Great_Cookie
11th of December 2006 (Mon), 22:18
Hi All,
Have been asked to take some pictures of a company event tonight, and was looking for some advice as to what combinations you people think would be most effective.
Venue is an indoor reception area of a movie theatre. My brief has been to take a couple of general crowd mingling shots as well as a couple of portrait shots.
The equipment I have on hand (Beside my 400D) are my 16-35mm(f2.8 ), 24-105 (f4 ) and 70-200 (f2.8 ) & Speedlite 580EX.
Given that it's indoors I'm leaning more towards the 70-200 for the portrait shots (f2.8) but am wondering whether the pulling out the 70-200 would be a bit extreme in 'close quarter' ranges? Or should i be looking at my 16-35 (more for general ambience), but given that i'm a 1.6crop it could also do as a half-portrait lens (without the IS - which is a tad worrying).
Of course, I've brought my 24-105 (I love the range), but I'm a tad worried that the f4 may lose a couple of shots in the lighting conditions (where my speedlite died last time).
I need to get these shots off as it's a movie premiere and asian Actor Chow Yun Fat will be there as well as some Govt Ministers, so I can't afford to fluff this up.
And don't ask why a professional photgrapher hasn't been employed... The one they wanted to engage is covering the outside gala event.:evil:
Advice most appreciated.
Have been asked to take some pictures of a company event tonight, and was looking for some advice as to what combinations you people think would be most effective.
Venue is an indoor reception area of a movie theatre. My brief has been to take a couple of general crowd mingling shots as well as a couple of portrait shots.
The equipment I have on hand (Beside my 400D) are my 16-35mm(f2.8 ), 24-105 (f4 ) and 70-200 (f2.8 ) & Speedlite 580EX.
Given that it's indoors I'm leaning more towards the 70-200 for the portrait shots (f2.8) but am wondering whether the pulling out the 70-200 would be a bit extreme in 'close quarter' ranges? Or should i be looking at my 16-35 (more for general ambience), but given that i'm a 1.6crop it could also do as a half-portrait lens (without the IS - which is a tad worrying).
Of course, I've brought my 24-105 (I love the range), but I'm a tad worried that the f4 may lose a couple of shots in the lighting conditions (where my speedlite died last time).
I need to get these shots off as it's a movie premiere and asian Actor Chow Yun Fat will be there as well as some Govt Ministers, so I can't afford to fluff this up.
And don't ask why a professional photgrapher hasn't been employed... The one they wanted to engage is covering the outside gala event.:evil:
Advice most appreciated.