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DJ Lighting at wedding reception How I handled the situation w/photo example posted.
To: Neil and everyone else, While the Bride and Groom were having the first dance at wedding and uplighting was on them and DJ Lights were on also on with different colors. I was able to wait till the bride and groom moved there position away from the Dj and took photo with my Canon 5dmk3 with on camera flash 600 ex-rt with a Gary Fong lightspare modifier my lens was a 24-70mm F2.8L2. Here's the example but there was some shadows on the bride and groom. My setting were Iso 1600 Lens at 41mm @ F2.8 S 1/400 flash on HSS. My point is there are many options to deal with the DJ lights. As you can see the ceiling had a blue light on it and my background was some what dark. If any one has other examples please post if you want too. The Dj lights have become a problem at most wedding lately. Attached photo of my example.
Carlos Zaldivar Photographers
Comments
Carlos,
By going into HSS (1/400th) you immediately lost a lot of flash power and ambient, you could have shot at 1/125th easily and also gone up to 2000+ in ISO to open background, but you gain a lot of extra flash power once out of HSS, at least a 1/3rd more power to light up and balance background/couple if you were wanting that.
The other thing I notice and this is by no means criticism, I was wondering about the colour, I don't mean the actual White Balance, but something appears to be off here with the skin tones and in general to my eye, it looks washed out somehow, cannot quite put my finger on it.
Could I be so bold as to ask for the RAW file, you can use MailBigFile or something else and upload and send to me: fstop_87_2@internode.on.net as I would like to see it, only if you are comfortable with that.
Now, as to the DJ lighting you were talking about, I honestly don't mind if it 'splashes' across the couple sometimes as that gives the mood of the evening anyway.
Cheer,
Trev
To Trev and everyone, My mistake the photo posted needed color correction. Trev you are correct at 1/125 I would have had more ambient light in background. As far as splaslhes of lights thats not what I mean I am talking about DJ lights in there face and body of different colors while there dancing. I re-posted photo with color correction.
Carlos Zaldivar
I think this color correction is better my monitor needed to be calibrated.
Do you still want to send me the RAW as in my post above?
Just to see how the original looks and I can open background better.
Carlos Zaldivar (Owner of Carlos Zaldivar Photographers)
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