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I have a few questions about some settings on my camera. I am taking some pictures for a BIG event its all week long so I need to get ready and get use to the different settings on my camera. I am pretty good at taking pictures but am for from being a professional and no i am not going to back out. But anyway i am going to describe the event and if you have any suggestion's on settings and other suggestions please tell. Explain it well because I am not good with technical phrases. The event is all week long and held in a convention center so the majority of the times the lights are going to be darker. I CAN"T use flash because it will distract the kids from the teaching and praise and worship. When I say kids I mean tennagers. There are most likely going to be over 500 kids. It is very dark in these areas but there is going to be pretty good lighting. I want to get some pictures of the kids during praise and worship but the lighting is so harsh. Any good movement settings? Thanks. How soon is this event? If it is in the near future, you might just set your camera to a program mode and hope for the best. Get a tripod so that you don't blur the background. If you are going to take posed shots of groups, etc, think about the background effect you want to achieve and whether you want them obviously engaged in an activity or there a more formal setting you might want against a plain background. Here is exactly what you need to do. So start put the camera on Matrix metering. this will take an over all light metering and settle somewhere in the middle. Next the ISO should be at 640. That is usually the best for indoor events. Set to Aperture priority. put tha camera on max aperture or lowest number. this way the camera will stay at that aperture and change the shutter spped accordingly. the reason for this setting instead of shutter priority is the shutter is more flexible than the aperture. also this means you maight have to hold the camera very still in very low light so there is no camera shake in the picture. if the room is well lit (normal room light) you wont have to contend with low shutter speeds. DO NOT use raw. the files are way too big and that setting is really ment for professional any way. and Cont AF is continual auto focus. this means when you press the shutter half way and the camera focuses on something, if the subject moves closer or further or you move the camera, the camera will continue to focus whitout having to repress the shutter. Its a good setting. if you follow these steps you should have no problems. i hope i explained well enough for you. Professional Photographer I'd suggest putting it on Aperture priority and setting it to the lowest number (which will be the widest aperture, allowing the most light in possible.) This will allow your camera to always use the faster shutter speed possible. Set your ISO to something high. If it's really dark, you'll want the highest setting. If the lighting is average, you might want to try something around 400 or 800 and see how your pictures are coming out... if they're still too blurry, set the aperture up higher. I don't know what the highest setting on your camera is but hopefully it'll go up to 1600. The problem with high ISO's is you get more grainy photos, but it allows you to use a faster shutter speed so it's better to have grainy pictures than blurry ones. Take a few test at different ISO's and see which are acceptable. A tripod is a good idea since it'll eliminate camera shake when using a slow shutter speed. RAW is a good thing, too... but only if you either have a large memory card or don't plan on taking a huge amount of pictures. RAW files take up more space. However, they give you more options for editing once you download them (if you have the proper software. Since your camera offers that setting it may have come with software that is capable of RAW editing/conversion.) Personally, I always shoot in RAW unless I'm taking several hundred photos and don't want to have to worry about running out of space. |
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