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Anja Lenner 		 

Low light danceparty photography


I would be very pleased if anyone could give me some tips and ideas re photographing at a dance party... I will be using my Nikon D70, and I do have the SB800 flash. But will need to have pretty fast exp times, since people will be moving around and dancing.


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May 30, 2005

 

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It would seem logical. It depends. I do the opposite. I shoot wide open. A typical setting for me might be, 50mm f/1.4, ISO 800 or maybe 1600, 1/30, f/1.4, flash set on 2nd curtain sync, using E-TTL.

You get a result like this:


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It would seem logical. It depends. I do the opposite. I shoot wide open. A typical setting for me might be, 50mm f/1.4, ISO 800 or maybe 1600, 1/30, f/1.4, flash set on 2nd curtain sync, using E-TTL.

You get a result like this:


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