Hello,
I've worked on the photography for a couple of charity gigs the past couple of months. They take place in a small pub, so it's quite dark. The first time I had my 400d, kit lens and a nifty 50, and I found I was struggling without my flashgun, so the majority of the shots were taken with the flash which i'm not a fan of as it looses the atmosphere. I was also getting bad noise at high ISOs. I went in the second time with some new equipment, a 5D, 70-200 2.8, and a Tamron 28-70 2.8. I was hoping with these 2.8 lenses I wouldn't have to rely on the flash, but unfortunately the light was really bad again. There wasn't any light on the subject's face, there were only a couple of lamps on the floor and that was pretty much it. I had to resort to my flashgun again.
Is there any way around this? I was up to 1600 ISO, but even the H setting it was telling me at 2.8 a suitable shutter was about 1/20th and I really didn't want to shoot that low handheld. As well as that, because it was so dark I had difficulty focusing, so all the shots were manual focused, and I found a lot were out of focus, despite trying my best focusing. It was difficult to tell when it was in focus and when it wasn't because it was so dark. I hear there's a focus beam that helps to focus? I find this will be really distracting though, the flashgun going off all through the night was bad enough!
I've worked on the photography for a couple of charity gigs the past couple of months. They take place in a small pub, so it's quite dark. The first time I had my 400d, kit lens and a nifty 50, and I found I was struggling without my flashgun, so the majority of the shots were taken with the flash which i'm not a fan of as it looses the atmosphere. I was also getting bad noise at high ISOs. I went in the second time with some new equipment, a 5D, 70-200 2.8, and a Tamron 28-70 2.8. I was hoping with these 2.8 lenses I wouldn't have to rely on the flash, but unfortunately the light was really bad again. There wasn't any light on the subject's face, there were only a couple of lamps on the floor and that was pretty much it. I had to resort to my flashgun again.
Is there any way around this? I was up to 1600 ISO, but even the H setting it was telling me at 2.8 a suitable shutter was about 1/20th and I really didn't want to shoot that low handheld. As well as that, because it was so dark I had difficulty focusing, so all the shots were manual focused, and I found a lot were out of focus, despite trying my best focusing. It was difficult to tell when it was in focus and when it wasn't because it was so dark. I hear there's a focus beam that helps to focus? I find this will be really distracting though, the flashgun going off all through the night was bad enough!
