Help out a photo slacker
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- bananaman0
Brain dump
- You need to beg/borrow/steal a better lens. 17-85 would be good or a fast prime lens. If not, putting your lens to 55mm will be alright for portraits and you might get some depth of field if you have enough light. Portraits are usually better at 70-80mm. 18mm might be too wide - but maybe good for a nice, all encompassing crowd shot.
- You need to set your aperture as wide as possible.
- If it's getting dark, push up the ISO to keep shutter speed fast (and hence reduce blur).
- To stop the flash being so harsh, wrap tissue paper over the built-in flash and sellotape into place - giving a more diffused light (nicer photos).
- If you're going to shoot RAW, shoot RAW+HiJPG. Hi JPG is usually okay and means you won't have to process RAW.
- Better to underexpose than overexpose (use Adobe Lightroom free trial afterwards to sweeten up the photos).
- Think about each photo - the framing and subject - candid shots are always best
- Don't worry about being the camera dude, keep snapping and about 10mins later no-one will care.
- Have fun