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How to shoot glow sticks at night wedding

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May 04, 2005

This will be difficult. We had a skating party for my son recently, and every kid was given a glow necklace. They don't show any glow in any of the flash pictures (see the ZOOOM pics in my gallery). The ambient-light pictures that I took were too slow to even show motion blur -- they were more like abstract art.

If you use a flash, you won't see much glow, if any, from the sticks. If you don't use a flash, you will have slow shutter speeds that will show any movement of the subjects. While the long exposures could be neat for a couple of special-effects images, I think you'll want most of your images to be properly exposed with no motion blur.

If the people are standing relatively still, and there is enough ambient light to get a decent exposure without the flash, then you should see some glow from the glow sticks.

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May 04, 2005