Nightclub Photography - A Basic Guide

[London Headshots]

Slow Syncs are amateur hour. Shoot at over 1/100th, dont even 2nd curtain, run a low aperture and get wide as possible. Dont put up unflattering regular photos, it just makes you unpopular.

This is a pretty fair post.

The slow shutter thing in club photography is absolutely done to death.

 

[jimmy83]

Ive been shooting some nightclubs lately, but I think ive been pretty unlucky as the two I normally shoot in has very poor light. They have a lazer and minimal ambient lighting! Add a smoke machine to that...and well it can be hard-work! I experimented with the wireless trigger 603 ones and managed some good results.

Can anyone tell me what the best way is to focus when using triggers? I ended up using manual but then I struggled to know if the subject was in focus or not due to the bad light-so some of that was guess work! Plus I can't zoom in or out with the lens as I have one hand holding the flash and the other the camera!

OCF

Kind of an idea of the lack of lighting I had to deal with