Shooting a big fund raiser tomorrow

[D.S.]

My other half runs a girl guide unit, and she doing lots of fund raising events to raise cash for a trip to Iceland in 2010.

So tomorrows event is a quiz night in the church hall, they have sold over 180 tickets at £6 each so its going to be pretty busy.

Looking for some shooting tips really, it will be in a church hall (not the church itself) with normal strip lighting, quite high ceiling etc.

I was planning on using my 300mm as its quite a big hall and use SB400 flash, and ill going for candid shots over portraits as they always come out better.

The pics will be for the web site (built by yours truly funnily enough) www.10thpurleyguides.org if you fancy a look.

Any tips on settings or technique would be much appreciated.

All the best.

 

[david1701]

if your going for candids, especially at 300mm the flash might be more of a hinderance than a help tbh as it won't have much power will be a v hard source and will make you obvious

if you had a pair of flashes bounced off the ceiling in opposite corners I have seen that work on strobist for covering a room but I don't think on shoe long range candid shooting will work too well

got any fast glass and can grin and bear the noise?

 

[david1701]

oh and for settings if the lighting is constant i would set up a manual exposure at the beginning (something all your glass can reach) when you have time to mess about and then you won't have to worry about metering all night

if you want to mix flash and ambient gel the flash to match the lights (a green gel for strip lights) can't think of any more but if i do ill let you know