K10D: Bar/Nightclub photography tips PART 2

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• Pentax
• K10D
• Chris
• how-to
• Bar/Nightclub
• lighting
• camera
• photography
• fotoenvy

[ealpogi]

"unless you're surrounded by a bunch of midgets or something..." hahhaha

[travisatwork01]

Thanks for taking the time to share. :)

[evmccain]

awesome video man, doing some free work at a club this weekend as a learning experience and this definitely helped.

[MrAlexsavazzi]

lots of great tips!!!

i really like the idea of spinning the camera body/with 1/4 sec. exposure for the bg. light effect.

thanks for putting that together.

[jonathanisonline]

midgets lmao

[iliamgillan]

Thankyou for this :)

[CalSmack]

i am going to use the ghostbuster slide tonight.

[MutR]

@alexgowers The stoffen only works because its opaque, so while it doesnt exactly diffuse the light, it does spread it more evenly than a bare bulb. Its the same reason a diffuser works on say, a beauty dish. it doesnt do anything to make the light source bigger, but it does help spread the light more evenly, thus providing a softer light.

[alexgowers]

@souldrudaddy clearly you still don't understand how a soft shadow is cast. Relative light source to subject size is all that matters. Stofens by their nature are diffusers and do not increase the relative light size. You are confusing the two here.

You must never have used light modifiers or lights, studio or other from the comments you make. These are fundamental basics when dealing with light.

[souldrudaddy]

@alexgowers some light passes through the stofen and scatters just the same as some light passes through a cloud and scatters. Not 100% of the light though. This is why it is always darker outside on cloudy days (less light). I bet your going to argue that its just as sunny on a cloudy day :-/ . Diffused light is soft light. So a stofen, soft box, cloud, a flannel bed sheet, towelette paper if you freaken wanted all could soften(diffuse) light.