talent night!

[Blackwijet]

Hi,

Hoping this is the right section but by please let me know if I should get mods to move elsewhere!

my company is running a staff talent night tomorrow to raise funds for a charity that we have been supporting all year. It will be a real hoot and god knows what will happen, however, they have asked me to take photos. (thankfully that gets me out of performing!)

Normally I do equestrian/dog events and more recently llifestyle and yard shoots so this is a completely unexplored avenue of photography for me as most of my stuff is natural light with some flash fill for the yard shoots etc. Obviously I will be getting there early to look at the set up and talk to the lighting guys but does anyone have any advice on this type of thing? It's all very low key so there is no pressure but I would like to try and get some good shots of each act especially the children.

They have professional lighting gear being operated by a professional lighting bod FOC so I'm hoping low light isn't going to be too much of an issue as I feel that using flash would be rather obtrusive to those on stage struting their stuff.
My kit will be Nikon D3S with 70-200m (f2.8) and D700 with sigma 24-70mm.

Thanks to anyone that can offer suggestions!

 

[Sir SR]

Hi,

Hoping this is the right section but by please let me know if I should get mods to move elsewhere!

my company is running a staff talent night tomorrow to raise funds for a charity that we have been supporting all year. It will be a real hoot and god knows what will happen, however, they have asked me to take photos. (thankfully that gets me out of performing!)

Normally I do equestrian/dog events and more recently llifestyle and yard shoots so this is a completely unexplored avenue of photography for me as most of my stuff is natural light with some flash fill for the yard shoots etc. Obviously I will be getting there early to look at the set up and talk to the lighting guys but does anyone have any advice on this type of thing? It's all very low key so there is no pressure but I would like to try and get some good shots of each act especially the children.

They have professional lighting gear being operated by a professional lighting bod FOC so I'm hoping low light isn't going to be too much of an issue as I feel that using flash would be rather obtrusive to those on stage struting their stuff.
My kit will be Nikon D3S with 70-200m (f2.8) and D700 with sigma 24-70mm.

Thanks to anyone that can offer suggestions!

Not sure if this will help but......

Took a few pics of my daughter and our friends' kids in her baby ballet show. First time if shot in those particular conditions. Used a d800, sigma 70-200 non os f2.8

Managed to get some nice shots shooting between f4-f5.6 iso 1600 and above depending on the conditions at the time. There are a few examples on my Flickr.

Should be more than do-able with the kit you've got, not sure you'll need additional lights (maybe the odd bit of bounce/fill backstage or after show?). Always wondered how good the d3s' high Iso is - always heard great things about it!

S

 

[Blackwijet]

Cheers! yes the D3S is brilliant as high ISO, I frequently shoot at 5000 and occasionally 6400 in some of the indoor arenas (really dark arenas!) so hopefully I should be okay on light. I'm wondering more about things like metering (matrix or spot), angles to shoot from (side/front) and anything else anyone could think of. I think the biggest problem is not knowing what the acts are going to be as they are all being very secretive so I can't really plan ahead too much as to where to stand etc. I think it's going to be a case of experimentation!

Thanks again!