Help! Shooting in a Church?

[cambsno]

Got my daughters Christening tomorrow and want to get a few nice shots in church. My dilemma is I will have to trust my camera to someone else and so how to set it up.

My favoured setup is M mode and use my 50mm, ideally shooting with my 50mm 1.4 lens. Should I stick it on Auto, or maybe S mode so that it is around 1/60 or 1/80 to avoid subject blur? Should I put my Tamron 28-75 on? The danger is that IQ is not as good as the prime, especially at 2.8 and would possibly need to drop to 1.4 or 1.8 as churches are not the brightest! But some people really struggle with a prime if not used to it and 50mm on a crop may be too tight. But then using 1.4 1.8 could mean a lot of oof shots!

 

[lawrie29]

up the iso, this will help shutter speeds, and go with the tamron.

better a grainy shot than a blurry one.

 

[cambsno]

Yes, leaning to auto iso up to 1600 on S mode and leave that on 1/60 with the Tamron and cross fingers!!

 

[ZeroCooL]

So how did it go?!... i have this exact trouble but have just started bouncing my flash off walls to get good shots (if the holy man allows me!)

 

[casts_by_fly]

Do you want on board flash used? is there enough light to go without flash? Auto will kick up the onboard flash. If you don't want flash then go program mode. That would be my choice for giving someone else my camera. Program mode, set the ISO to 1600 (for a dim church) and put it in auto focus point selection. Don't forget to show them how to half press the shutter to focus.

I'd also take some test shots long before to make sure the settings they are going to end up with are what you intended.

Thanks
Rick