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Morning All,

I've been asked to photograph the Apprentice of the Year evening at work tomorrow (thursday) evening.
It is being held in a reasonably well lit room but which has no external light at all. They want some formal shots of the presentations and some informal ones of the gathering afterwards.
I have a Nikon D40x and D70 and a nifty fifty a Sigma 24-60 F2.8 and a Nikon 55-200mm VR F4.5 and a tripod. (Also ND grad filters, but I don't think they will be of much use).
Any suggestions as to what lens(es) would be the best to use for these situations would be gratefully recieved. :thumbs:

Cheers

Andy
 
Unless by "well lit" you mean its got a proper photographic lighting setup, then your #1 problem will be finding a proper flash...
 
The 24-60 or 50mm are probably your best bets, I don't see a flash mentioned so it mught be worth borrowing or buying one if you can (will work pay as it's for them?) One problem you might have is you haven't got a proper wide angle lens there, the 24mm end of your zoom is only slightly wide on the crop body, you may need something like a 18-55 or similar for big groups. Wayne
 
Cheers guys.
Forgot to mention I have got an SB600 flash which will work in commander mode from the D70 so it does give me a few lighting options.
Its a fairly big room so the 24mm may be wide enough from the back but I wish I'd rented the 10-20mm siggy from StewartR for an extra week, it would have been handy.
I think my main problem using flash will be reflections from the diffusers on the room lights. Is there any simple way I could overcome this?

Andy
 
If you get a chance, go have a look at the room today. Check things like distances, have a think about the size of the field of view you want to achieve (eg is it just upper body of 6 people wide or a full human height ~2m), then work out how far back you'd need to be with the widest lens you have.

Not sure if office lighting diffusers will cause too much grief, but pull the whole trick bag out if you have it, the flip down wide angle diffuser and the flip out white card, which will force some of the light directly onto the subject to maybe eliminate some of the shadows caused by the bouncing main light.

I'm no flash expert... but that would be my best guess...
 
The 'gig' isn't until 19.00 so I'm going to bring in the whole shebang in the morning and have an hour setting up, working out angles etc. Hopefully I can work out what works and what to avoid, fortunately there will only be about 100 people including the MD, his boss, my boss and the apprentices and their adoring families. :runaway:

Andy
 
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