It's my first time to take a picture for night clubs. I use the following devices and settings.
- camera and lens: Sony ILCE-7M3 + Sony FE 24 - 105mm F4.0 OSS
- camera mode: manual mode
- aperture: f/4
- shutter speed: 1/10 ~1/20
- focal length: depends
- metering: dot (點測光)
- flash light
- Rear Curtain Sync (後簾同步)
- Godux V1
The location is la fin Taipei.
Challenges
At the beginning, I turned on the Redux V1 flash light for the extremely dark environment. However, I found that It doesn't work if I used the flash light.
There is a lot of smoke in the room of the night club which is unexpected. The flash light will make the DJ looks like getting fired as the following pictures.
So I was scared and I decided to turned-off the flash light.
Trade-off Strategy
The strategy before was using the low shutter speed with the rear curtain sync. However, the lash light is blocked. I tried to use the following combinations.
- High ISO
- Focus on the atmosphere of the room instead of the detail picture for the DJ
The pros of this strategy is I can retrieve the overview of the room, all attendees and their interactions.
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The cons of this strategy is obvious.
The high ISO value will cause the noise on image of the bight side. Additionally, it will cause a limitation of adjustment for the brightness. It means that we'll get more noise if we light up the picture.
The darkness can increase the mystery of the object. On the contrast, we couldn't see the clear profile of the object.
Summary
There are a few impacts from this experience.
- There is a regular photographer for each room.
I wonder that their guild for taking photos is to prohibit from using flash light when they was a junior. However, the conference photographer like us was taught to use the light regularly. It's totally a different world. - The images took with the flash light still works if we took the proper adjustment after the event, it depends on the environment
