{"id":19517,"date":"2014-03-06T23:03:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T03:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=19517"},"modified":"2017-08-11T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:10:00","slug":"wedding-photography-dealing-with-dj-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wedding-photography-dealing-with-dj-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding photography – Dealing with the DJ’s lights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wedding photography – Dealing with the DJ’s lights<\/h1>\n

As wedding reception venues and DJs are becoming more sophisticated in their lighting, there’s now the added challenge of spotlights and lasers and other lighting effects that compete with the simplicity of just using flash.<\/p>\n

So how do you deal with this? You just deal with this. One way or another.<\/p>\n

You can either embrace the colors (as in the example above),
\nor you can use flash to neutralize some of the wild color casts.
\nJust how do you do that? Well, there’s a little bit of homework at the end of this.<\/p>\n

Very often, I shoot towards the DJ’s booth<\/strong>, so that the wild colors become splashes of color, whether I add (on-camera bounce) flash, or not. This way I don’t have to directly compete with the lights, but they become an enhancement of the image.<\/p>\n

With lasers<\/strong> skimming around – my advice is to shoot a lot to make sure you have enough images, in case some were spoiled by bright green dots. Also, learn to love photoshop and the Healing Brush.<\/p>\n

With up-lighting<\/strong> that becomes quite prominent – well, there’s the little bit of homework to do at the end!<\/p>\n

And if anyone advises you to use specific settings\u00a0such as (for example): \u00a01\/60 @ f\/4 @ 1600 ISO to cover every situation, they are fools who are misleading you. There are too many variables for generic camera settings. Scenarios and situations change. You need to adapt.<\/p>\n

You’re not a passenger of your camera’s settings. You control them to allow more ambient light in, or less. And if you allow less ambient light in, you need to add additional light, whether flash or video light.<\/p>\n

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A\u00a0little bit of homework<\/h2>\n