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I am new to photography.I have taken a good few pictures at motorsport events.I was asked the last day to take a few photos at a comunnion.
I was just wondering would I need to get a flash.I was also wondering has anyone any suggestion to which the best settings would be to set the camera too.
I have a canon 400d and sigma 18-200.Thanks in advance
A flash would come in handy. I would probably put the camera in aperture priority mode and set the aperture to f/5.6 or faster. Keep an eye on the highlights in screen on the back of your camera, particularly if you’re photographing outside in bright sunlight. If you are outside, I recommend moving your subjects out of bright light into “open shade” as they call it.
I’d also put the camera in auto-iso put make sure you’re not straying into “very noisy” territory. You can possibly set an upper limit on how high you want the auto iso to be set to.
Is that your only lens? A 50mm f/1.8 would be convenient. If you plan on buying some new gear (i.e. the flash) I think the flash would be useful for your communion event, but a 50mm 1.8 would be better for your photography in general. That’s a little off the point, I guess.
I also think that you would do well to look at some other communion photographs to get ideas on what works compositionally and the type of pictures people would want to get. Capturing and knowing the right compositions and moments is probably more important than your settings (as long as you don’t decide to only do exposures lasting more than ten seconds or something radical like that :) )
Good luck and hope that’s all of some help.
Alan
Best of luck Joe. Don’t they say never to work with children or animals.
Who asked you, school or parent? What do they want “cute kids” or “junior hello magazine”? Don’t be afraid to ask.
Fill your pockets with sweets, but only give them after you’ve completed the shots. Don’t use chocolate as it will melt in your pocket and you’ll spend hours trying to photoshop it off white gowns.
Check whether the kid still has front teeth before you say “smile”
Watch your backgrounds as there will probably be people everywhere.
Get down to their perspective , and get the adults to come down to the childs height too, using their knees rather than hunching(prob only work for ones and twos, rather than large groups)Sorry, can’t be of more technical help
Sean
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