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The first dance is notoriously tricky - a moving subject in a very dimly lit environment. If you use flash you freeze the subject but kill the ambience. So what's your recipe? Mine is as follows:
I have a remote flash on a stand on the edge of the dance floor, gelled red or orange. With the camera on manual settings I move around so the couple is between me and the flash and try to get a silhouette of them with a rim light from the flash. When I've got a few of those I crank up the ISO and open up the shutter to the max and try to get some shots with as slow a shutter speed as I dare to let in some of the ambient light. You can usually get some good ones if they're dancing slowly. I take some with and without the gelled flash. Then I take off the remote flash trigger and put another flash on the camera and take a few safety shots which will look decent converted to black and white.
What's your recipe?
Also, when shooting a reception in a dimly lit function room, what shutter speed do you use? I usually use about 1/100 second with rear-curtain on-camera ETTL flash bounced off the ceiling or wall.
I have a remote flash on a stand on the edge of the dance floor, gelled red or orange. With the camera on manual settings I move around so the couple is between me and the flash and try to get a silhouette of them with a rim light from the flash. When I've got a few of those I crank up the ISO and open up the shutter to the max and try to get some shots with as slow a shutter speed as I dare to let in some of the ambient light. You can usually get some good ones if they're dancing slowly. I take some with and without the gelled flash. Then I take off the remote flash trigger and put another flash on the camera and take a few safety shots which will look decent converted to black and white.
What's your recipe?
Also, when shooting a reception in a dimly lit function room, what shutter speed do you use? I usually use about 1/100 second with rear-curtain on-camera ETTL flash bounced off the ceiling or wall.