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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 666381" data-attributes="member: 13196"><p>How high is the ceiling? And what color is the ceiling? Aiming bare flash directly at the people will be too harsh. It would be better to either bounce the lights or use some type of modifiers. </p><p></p><p>I took a photo of my church's choir a couple of years ago. Be sure to expose properly...and by that I mean take a photo without flash to see what ISO will properly expose the background. Keep in mind you will need to use a shutter speed that is at or below the shutter sync speed of your camera's body. And your aperture will need to be stopped down enough to get everyone in sharp focus. And that might be around f/8 or f/11 depending upon the number of rows of people.</p><p></p><p>Since my church tends to be dark, I kept my shutter speed at 1/60" (that allows in more background light than a higher shutter speed). ISO 1000 and aperture was f/7.1 for 3 rows of people with a focal length of 65mm. It turned out okay, but I should have gone with a slightly higher ISO and used f/8. I used one SB910 on TTL (not at full power...can't remember how much power I used) and bounced it off the ceiling. I also had its diffusion dome attached when I bounced it. It was off camera flash (used a flash bracket).</p><p></p><p>You will want to expose properly so you don't have to raise your exposure when doing post processing. You will wind up adding noise if you have to raise your exposure when post processing.</p><p></p><p><strong><u>EDIT</u></strong>: Choir lofts can be rather dark unless you have lots of light (either lit by windows or artificial light). My choir loft only has light through many small stained glass windows which are behind the people. So that light doesn't help their faces. Keep in mind if you have a lot of artificial light--whether tungsten (light bulbs) or fluorescent--your flash needs to overpower those other lights. Otherwise you run the risk of getting either a brownish tint from the tungsten bulbs or greenish tint from the fluorescent lights. And that colored tint may not be constant all over your image. If some people are positioned closer to an artificial light source that gives off a colored tint, you may need to edit their faces with an adjustment brush when post processing. It's not hard to do. Just trying to cover all the bases so you know ahead of time!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hark, post: 666381, member: 13196"] How high is the ceiling? And what color is the ceiling? Aiming bare flash directly at the people will be too harsh. It would be better to either bounce the lights or use some type of modifiers. I took a photo of my church's choir a couple of years ago. Be sure to expose properly...and by that I mean take a photo without flash to see what ISO will properly expose the background. Keep in mind you will need to use a shutter speed that is at or below the shutter sync speed of your camera's body. And your aperture will need to be stopped down enough to get everyone in sharp focus. And that might be around f/8 or f/11 depending upon the number of rows of people. Since my church tends to be dark, I kept my shutter speed at 1/60" (that allows in more background light than a higher shutter speed). ISO 1000 and aperture was f/7.1 for 3 rows of people with a focal length of 65mm. It turned out okay, but I should have gone with a slightly higher ISO and used f/8. I used one SB910 on TTL (not at full power...can't remember how much power I used) and bounced it off the ceiling. I also had its diffusion dome attached when I bounced it. It was off camera flash (used a flash bracket). You will want to expose properly so you don't have to raise your exposure when doing post processing. You will wind up adding noise if you have to raise your exposure when post processing. [B][U]EDIT[/U][/B]: Choir lofts can be rather dark unless you have lots of light (either lit by windows or artificial light). My choir loft only has light through many small stained glass windows which are behind the people. So that light doesn't help their faces. Keep in mind if you have a lot of artificial light--whether tungsten (light bulbs) or fluorescent--your flash needs to overpower those other lights. Otherwise you run the risk of getting either a brownish tint from the tungsten bulbs or greenish tint from the fluorescent lights. And that colored tint may not be constant all over your image. If some people are positioned closer to an artificial light source that gives off a colored tint, you may need to edit their faces with an adjustment brush when post processing. It's not hard to do. Just trying to cover all the bases so you know ahead of time! [/QUOTE]
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