night club photos (NWS) (2)

finally went to the "porn n chicken" dance party last night! had a blast, so much fun shooting there.

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^ NICE! I knew you'd have a blast there. Chris and I served as the festival photographers this past weekend for Sping Awakening Music Fest here in Chicago. It was a pretty cool experience. Especially when shooting the set up, we had free rain over Soldier Field and spent the day running around its inner workings. here's a quick pick I shot of Laidback Luke before his set sunday evening, and check out the promo video my friend Tamara Susa and I worked on.

Cool video! What's the name of the song though? Thanks!

Nevermind:P

Skrillex-Voltage

Great stuff, srika.

srika wrote in post #14602185
finally went to the "porn n chicken" dance party last night! had a blast, so much fun shooting there.

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typical by Rasidel Slika, on Flickr

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common theme by Rasidel Slika, on Flickr

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night flair by Rasidel Slika, on Flickr

will have some more when I get a chance.

Great shots!!! These exposures are spot on. How do you go about metering? Do you guess and set your exposure and aperture than let ettl pick the right flash power?

rwiklund8 wrote in post #14606258
Great shots!!! These exposures are spot on. How do you go about metering? Do you guess and set your exposure and aperture than let ettl pick the right flash power?

thanks - I just leave the metering on spot-center - it may not even be the best setting - truth be told, I haven't experimented with changing metering.

I typically use the same range of settings at any venue these days. ISO 1250-3200 (the max on the 5D - the first 3 above are all 3200, the one below is 1600), 1/5 to around 1/15 or so for shutter (obviously much faster if there are bright lights that come on here and there - I have the Custom mode dial set specifically for when this happens, it is ISO 400 and shutter of 1/80 or so). For aperture I'm usually wide open, lately I have been primarily using the 17-40L (all 4 shots above) - so those are all at f/4.0. Regarding flash, I am always on ETTL and I used to adjust flash output but these days I just leave it at 0 for the most part, like 95% of the time. The setting I adjust the most is ISO - change that based on lighting.

This was a fun one:

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Crystal Bay Club, Lake Tahoe. Naive Melodies (Talking Heads cover band) show:

spot is probably best for darker venues, otherwise you'll probably be dragging the meter lower if you're evaluating the entire scene. I normally keep it on spot myself.

cabinajm wrote in post #14611873
spot is probably best for darker venues, otherwise you'll probably be dragging the meter lower if you're evaluating the entire scene. I normally keep it on spot myself.

I figured as much, I keep it on spot too. Always have.

edit: oh, I already said that. Lol

LOL at # 1 !

Nice shots !

General comment about this thread - it's a lot of fun to look at shots of these clubs / parties etc, but they mainly make me glad I'm old and married !

^^ thanks for taking a look I appreciate the comment!

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Some stuff I put up real quick.

Where do I sign up to draw on womens' cans?