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i posted in the welocome forum but was pointed here for good advice!

so at the deepend of things i have ended up doing the year 11 prom pictures on friday night and just looking for some top tips if poss! norm to landscape photography!

i have:

nikon d40
sb-400
standard 18-55m lens
and 55-200 af-s dx!
 
Hi martynbez,

I did some pre-prom shots the other night, what look are you looking to achieve? Heres an example one:

prom10.jpg


They liked this one :lol:
 
yeah that is a good one!

so with 230 people going am i going to be run off my feet?
 
Hi and welcome to the forums.

This Friday that is short notice :eek:

Are you going to be taking photos and selling them? If so how much are you chargins and how will you do this; print on the night or take orders? Will you be posting them in an online gallery for people to purchase?

Are you planning on shooting indoors or outdoors? If you are shooting indoors are you planning on hiring some portable studio flash and background as I doubt a single on camera flash (especially the SB400) will cut much dice.


Top Tips I would give is

1) Find out what the customer wants and shoot it
2) Be careful with your backgrounds (if outside use the widest aperture possible to throw the background out of focus, ideally you'd have an f2.8)
3) Be careful about the positioning of the people make sure you can see everyone's face
4) Dont shoot with a small focal length, otherwise you distort the people at edges of the picture and they will look ugly!!

I wish you the very best of luck - I think you need it.

P.S. If you are based in the North West and want help PM me with the details as I may be able to help you out for the evening. I have a secure online purchasing facility for parents (the ones with the money) to buy from.
 
i'm down in the south east but thank you for the offer and i would have deff taken you up on it!

i have managed to get A4 prints for £1.88 and will sell some on the night and put the rest on line and will take orders from within the school! so was think of selling at £5 for an a4 print!
 
I managed to do this a couple of weeks ago now. Great fun.

I'll post a few of my pictures up for you. :-)

I had a year group of 280 to do. Very busy, lovely location but sometimes it was just really hard to get people isolated from the rest of the crowd.

I hired a 17-55mm 2.8 from stewartr (lensforhire.co.uk) and it did the job wonderfully.
 
well i did it!

586 pic's later and a long night! was harder work then i thought! got some great pictures and not so great ones! just going to sit down with photoshop for the rest of the eve!
 
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