night club photos (NWS) (2)

SleazyMermaid wrote in post #13835466
Nice shot of the cake Pod.

DJ birthdays are usually fun to shoot. The club revamped the Terrace DJ booth and put back the 'entourage' VIP so there's maneuvering room again.

LOVE the last post srika, awesome photos. What ISO do you generally go with? And is your flash mounted on the hotshoe or on a bracket/held?

How does everyone here angle their flash when shooting portrait?

fminus wrote in post #13837133
SebkeClaes: How are the people in Belgium? I live in the Scandinavian region, and while beautiful, they are boring and stiff as ****.

Belgium is known for its crazy party peeps, and I must say part of it is true. I usually shoot drum & bass, dubstep and electro gigs where the people are really energetic and pumped up, I love it!

SebkeClaes: So I heard! I plan on swinging by as soon as the weather is a bit nice. Gotta love those RyanAir cheap fares.

Brandsanity wrote in post #13840591
LOVE the last post srika, awesome photos. What ISO do you generally go with? And is your flash mounted on the hotshoe or on a bracket/held?

How does everyone here angle their flash when shooting portrait?

hey thanks bud, lately ive been at 1250-1600 on the 5D and enjoying the hell out of it. flash is on -camera. I tried off once and couldnt get into it. it takes some practice and time to get used to, I will probably try it again at some point.

The biggest thing you usually have to deal with, with regards to off-camera flash is where to point it.

pod_canon wrote in post #13843923
The biggest thing you usually have to deal with, with regards to off-camera flash is where to point it.

also I usually have a beer in the other hand. haha

True. My famous last words before a photo "Hold my drink..."

It's funny because I don't drink beer (only vodka OJs now since my digestive system is out of whack) so you can totally see when someone holds my drink. Beer beer beer Vodka Drink beer in a photo.

What I do is I have my flash in my back pocket most of the time. Some people think it's a fancy radio cause of the red light and LCD.

^^ heh yeah I do that sometimes. here are some more from last weekend:

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^ Lovely as usual.

How do you guys angle your flash when shooting portrait? I've been pointing mine up at around 45 degrees but keep getting dark bottoms like this:

Brandsanity wrote in post #13848370
^ Lovely as usual.

How do you guys angle your flash when shooting portrait? I've been pointing mine up at around 45 degrees but keep getting dark bottoms like this:

How can I fix it?

If you are using f2.8 or faster then you could always point the flash backwards and bounce of the ceiling? this generaly works well or you could use a ttl wire and hold it in your left hand and that way you could point it anywhere

I don't change the position of the flash at all when shooting vertical - I am at ISO 1000 and above (lately at 1600 for most of the night) and so not much flash power is needed - it's ok that most of the light is being lost on the side. If there is ambient light, the flash becomes more of a fill light (as you can see above). One thing I do is block the flash head with my hand, since all I am using is the built-in bounce card, and if I don't do that, it is likely that I'll blind someone on the left. Hope that helps,

Man, you must have some decent bright lighting in the places you work! If I were to take a photo at ISO 1600 without flash - even at half a second shutter (if I could hold the camera perfectly still) it would no doubt just be mostly black.

Hmm, maybe I'll try rolling without the stofen for a while tonight then and see how that goes! I've pushed the ISO up to 1600 for some photos the last few times I've been working but always bottle it. Kinda trapped myself in a comfort zone with 800 ISO, around half a second shutter and some dragging/twisting. Really need to break out. Maybe I'll give it a whirl once my shift is over so there is nothing to lose.

no no, I didn't say I'm taking photos WITHOUT flash. I said a lot of the light is being lost on the side, but its still going forward because of the card - I have also done it with the Stofen, that works well in this scenario too.