If you are thinking of an event photographer, these instructions can be useful. I spent a lot of time researching all the kits needed to be a successful event photographer, tests and calculations carefully. It 's all the running gear is available now, so that means unlike some of the leaders I've read so far.
I'm training on, and I did some events different now, so this is to help others avoid some common mistakes. This guide to photography event is based on my personalExperience, and everyone is free to reproduce this article as long as the credit website address
Council to all the photography of the event is delivered to the excellent education system of Insight is interested, talk to Mike Orr, Stuart and Darren systems for access. I also found the company very useful event photographer.
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1, Camera Equipment needed for an event photographer;
2 Lighting for the eventPhotography;
Press 3 for instant event photography;
4 Click System Mitsubishi for event photography;
5 Photograph of events greenscreen;
6 From a business event photography.
1 Camera Equipment for event photographers.
You do not need more high-end professional SLR to shoot with a professional glass lens for any event! It 'nice, good kit, but that should be a given for all Pro Photographer. In fact, the customer in a football tournament, dance school or blacktie event, no matter what kit until the results are good, and do not want to carry a heavy camera with the fragile glass in an environment that is often busy and noisy!
There is no need to get too high-resolution RAW files and not have the time or the process of struggling with hundreds of settings.You looking for a sharp picture, vivid and bright to obtain enough resolution to print the contribution form the final output. Focus on what people look great!
IThey recommend a workflow Wireless, which later, and again you need the file to be small enough to send quickly. I use a Nikon D700, but that's only because I have a photograph of real estate, as I need the full frame and low-light capabilities.
Taking only a medium resolution jpg for most events, and use a Sigma 24-70mm HSM lens, so I zoom in too fast between individuals and groups. A Nikon D40 with lens kit to do just as well. and I always wear one as a backup. It also takesmy Nikon flash and is much lighter than a D700.
It 'important to have a backup camera, I have to do with a Nikon Coolpix P6000 D700 if my luck has been used for a cricket event page. With the right lighting (see lighting), I got results almost identical photographs of people against a green screen. You must have at least one spare fully charged battery for each camera to an event, a couple of spare and replacement batteries and memory cards pre-formatted flash drives. IWith the new Duracell batteries for flash devices, how they live
He's not crazy on the camera kit is wrapped around an event to get! As for the settings in it-I F7.1 to F8 for about groups of firing, so you can get a good depth of field, I use a shutter speed of about 125 for sharp pictures when I did not use a tripod, may be too restrictive, and I use a sufficient sensitivity to 400 ISO. The white balance is simply a Nikon, see lights, but to do the flash setting. For individuals and couples I offerf5 around and shoot at full length, head and shoulders and a close-up. Outdoor events are dependent on the availability of light and the lens.
A council with a radio transmitter to send images directly on your PC or Mac click system avoids the risk of people (especially women) want to see every shot on the back of the camera as it takes! This puts them through faster, and your team at work, the images show correctly in full size. I really believe thatImages stored in the camera as a backup if not more so in the case of operation of the wireless system.
Another tip, if you shoot groups at a school dance or a corporate event, take a ladder! If you are on them and change the angle and stop shooting people in the front look much larger than that on the back! This allows you to squeeze larger groups, and especially useful if you are in front of a green screen is an event.
Also, if you have never had a large group ofGirls in a school prom or sweet sixteen event, take lots of pictures! It 'very difficult to get one photo of each girl is always happy with how you look, the guys are not so picky. Buy the girl in the picture look better
We tend to the standard rate of £ 10 a mounted drive with a 6x9 photos for free, but offer incentives for groups such as discounted copies of the recording itself, or 3 for the price of 2 if they are several shots that need toProcessing.
2 Lighting for photography of events
I do not use studio lighting for indoor events! At first I used the standard large softbox in front of the camera and shot against a gray back or white. But this is boring and old hat these days, the lighting is very flat and there is always the risk of people tripping cable and expense of finding an electrical outlet nearby.
At school dances, bar mitzvahs and Sweet Sixteen parties, especially is very busy andWe carry full insurance, even if I do not want a light on a major studio guest. It 'the same at corporate events and Black Tie Dinner, there is usually a big rush after dinner for photos and even a tape in, the light from a drunken party guest get pulled!
So now I use a Nikon SB-900 camera with wide angle door down and mounted the speaker soft. It controls two other Nikon SB-600 is also wide-angle edges down with the Nikon CLS lighting excellent.The two SB-600 is available on stable, but mounted and portable fire beautiful white umbrellas for soft lighting.
For an event that you do not want to be changing lighting each other, if you code, but the installation flexible and light enough to be sure to move quickly when you need it. The Nikon system allows me to control the brightness of each flash from the camera without having to touch the lights.
How we use the green screen scenes for most of the events and add effectsdigital backgrounds, I have to check the background is lit evenly, to avoid problems when the green chromakey. By mounting the screens high on each side and shoot through it gets the green (or blue) background, evenly lit, where it counts. Guests get a nice light setup flattering that I can easily adapt for large groups or close-ups. I
Taking on full manual with the camera flash at about 1 / 32 power to fill a little 'light, but especially for the two triggerLuminaires. These are usually about 1:8 to power, which is a lot! Recycling is very fast and I never change the batteries at an event, although I have spares on hand is calculated.
If I have a large group such as a football or cricket in a sporting event, I quickly two rear side windows move up and power.If calms down and you get a guest who wants some special shots, the light is shifted Keylight and you are as a stuffing for classic Rembrandt lighting.We have professional software makeover on workstations in order to increase the images quickly, if someone blows portfolio.
The SB-900 on the camera can also be removed and as a slave to the hair or other lighting effects that activate flashing Canera. So we can make three easy set-up lights! The white balance will be crucial for Nikon cameras only if the issues are, set the white balance "pre" and then press and hold the WB button for three seconds. If the displayFlashes, the camera and take it back to the lights. If it is "good" In the announcement says, you're ready to go. If not, try again shooting straight at one of the SB600, it will work!
The real beauty of this system is that it fits all in a suitcase on wheels and Calumet is easy to carry! It 'very flexible for other types of photography. These flash drives are just as powerful as lights in the studio, and we also bring Fong Diffusers and Softboxes if we can have something to do GlamourPhotography. (And yes, you can book for private photo shoots!)
Press 3 for instant event photography.
I used a large independent company sales calibrated color printer, scanner and shows in the market for corporate design and worked with Canon, Xerox, Mitsubishi and Tektronix color as a consultant. So the selection of the best events the printer has been an interesting task!
Laser printers and color inkjet printers have been immediately dismissed as I need portability, reliability andQuality photos. Also, I need to know exactly what it would cost per print. A printer inkjet produces the highest quality with a little tweaking, but never at the speed of quality, and duration of a dedicated dye-sub printer.
I do not think ink compatible, as I have seen firsthand the amount of R & D, which goes to the owner of an ink manufacturer. Sun inkjet prints are too expensive for the press event. Lasers are fast, but lacking in color quality and extremely difficult totransport. After testing all current offers, I chose the Mitsubishi Mitsubishi DW 9550 in connection with the release system as our basic workhorse for the production of large photographs, 9 x 6 inches.
Since I am a full-frame camera which is the size of the shot, so no cutting needed! The photos are very fast and accurate, thanks to the dedicated color profiles supplied by Systems Insight, and we put up with me!
The sublimation process involves heating the ink fundamentallyon a tape until it is sublimated into a gas and special paper. This is a truly continuous process, so that the color gamut is much broader than other methods, without making a simple point and accurate skin tones model.
You can actually roll on a picture and store it in a pint of Coke, leave it for hours and then clean with no signs of deterioration or dry, as shown in the formation of Stuart! These pictures really do not fade and fingerprint tests areThanks to the special coating. You are more than any other photograph last year!
The fixed cost for each image allows us to discounted rates for prepaid events such as weddings or school dances, we offer exactly what our cost per photo, regardless of how much the family of each color used.
But we also offer a unique digital make-over service for very special events with a PC with professional image-editing software so you need a printer that can connect directly. And we wanted tobe able to immediately 12 "x 10", photos and other large sporting events like football and cricket teams which are very popular recordings.
So we opted for the large format Mitsubishi as we have now found that it works on the Click! Consumables for the event Mitsubishi printers are readily available at low prices and thus help to reduce costs. Some of the more obscure brands like Shinko and Olmec are often difficult to source.
We are pleasedSpeed, quality and reliability of our printers, but more importantly, our customers love the results.
4 system for Mitsubishi Click event photographers.
My background is in color technology, as mentioned, but before that I was a System Manager in December, I have a HND in computer science and am a qualified programmer. Yes, I am old enough to have done everything and spent seven years in the army, the control ratio of computers and set fire Artlillery and books, if these systems have beenremoved.
So I'm probably more of a technical geek than most photographers. So why do I choose a specific solution for production instead of pictures of my know-how solutions in both PC and Mac?
Laziness really, why reinvent the wheel! I quickly realized that no money at all in the photography of events is necessary to produce very good photos at a very high very quickly! The process is very important. At first I was both a large 27 "Mac usea study of display quality for the end of the process all the incoming images, or go to the location of Windows 7 with a few quick Sony Vaio AW, with its beautiful Adobe RGB 18 "monitor, with both systems in combination with a sublimation or two.
But when I started watching the flow of work and I realized the software needed Click Mitsubishi should cover all the bases. Yes, I could run both systems quickly and use a special green screen software and professional image editing software to produce impressiveResults. But who would have pictures? I needed a system that is elegant and easy to use, so I could train others, was used.
My first event was a company Christmas dinner and the only person available who have the green screen effects, printing, assembly and sale was my wife! Click the system is very easy to set up a new event and the images are sent wirelessly from the photographer. They only made possible by touching the screen in full screen preview, when theCustomers have decided that the photos they want, it is quite simple, in a green-screen background and-drop printing, all of us!
Camera cards and CDs can be easily read or burned, most printers are supported and the whole system running smoothly and with great professionalism. We also had customers connect their cameras or mobile phones via Bluetooth and print their photos! My wife had our first event, and we had more than thirty of satisfied customers that evening, in a veryshort period of about 2 hours after the meal ended, to return home.
Many bought several pictures with different effects and backgrounds, but they handled everything, while I took the blows. Now we have the trained workers, since the wear is a bit ':) But I still want to use the flexibility and power, more specialized software green screen to fall into overlapping and developed some of the effects difficult.
So with a little help from the engineers I worked outside the Insight system, asTo access the system directly below the smooth front-end software is a powerful Windows PC. So now, if we have a special request (such as "I was in the Oval Office with President Obama") I get to jump and run in the old pros Photokey card or portrait in the background! And yes, you can print directy 9550DW dedicated to works by dropping into the queue, e-mail for details:)
You can also increase the processor speed, add more RAM to put the graphics card to support HDMIexternal display, also change the motherboard, if you're brave enough and do not guarantee excluded spirit!
I would recommend this system for each procedure and are also advised not to buy from Stuart and Darren at the Systems Insight as they know the system!
5 Green Screen Event Photography
To succeed in the photography of events, as in any business is a key differentiator, you need to do something unique. We all have basically the same service, photographyPeople have a good time and offers prints or downloads. Some specialize in niches such as weddings or school photographs or certain types of events such as equestrian or riding a bike. I opted for photography green screen event for a number of reasons.
I like the portability of our lighting system and did not want, from having to carry around different colored backgrounds for the treatment of special occasions. I find it boring, shot dozens of people in the same way, and I'm sure that mostPeople are always events that are powered by the same gray-blue background, or "ultra-modern" white key or black, high or low shooting.
I want to have fun in an event and the guests want to experience something new. So we all have to shoot against a blue or a green screen and more often than our special software that can replace the color with one of our digital backgrounds 2500! This gives us the flexibility to study Black Tie and elegant set to add corporate events, and allows us toselect appropraite to increase the color, which guests wear.
For school dances, and guests can fly Sweet Sixteens through the room to the stage with their favorite rock band or the last movie. Bar and Bat Mitzvah make a lot of fun, as they can to transport guests anywhere in the world, and all events, we offer free custom designs and overlays so that the event is memorable and unique.
The key event photography Chromakey maintains the workflow in a hurry! If you2500 decision to offer guests a giant snake or a lot of disappointed people waiting. We tend to 10 selections for each event design and an example of each print so you can decide, before you shoot. In this way, when they go next to a vampire Twilight or on the dance floor with John Travolta are, they are where they can be right! Does things slowly need to add scenes, but we prefer to interact and guests can enjoy the experience.
And not all of themare taken and printed for us to work with companies such as an abattoir is focusing on quantity rather than quality, is what the cameras automatic theme parks, we prefer to earn some 'time, our money!
We prefer blue screens, green screens and fewer people than the actual shade of green we wear. Blue clothes, jewelry and eyes are common and can cause probems, unless you know how to mask these areas. We use very special green-screen movies at this timethe studios. It is argued that a special white material absorbs light and glows uniformly. Ordinary muslin green light is reflected and cause problems, especially with very blond hair. Contact me for details, is twice as expensive but worth it!
Do not worry evenly light the background, as many argue that Just Cause is more buried and you need more light, power and wiring! You can not put your guests to the recommended 10-12 feet away in an event that you need, when lightIn the background! Imagine if you were to shoot a group, and everyone had to be 12 feet in front of the canvas!, How long would it! With the professional software you can quickly adjust to the flow and reflects the green light.
The trick is to enlighten the people, not the background that should appear only in the gaps in each case and if you have a green light enough that it will work. Less is more, they are light from the sides and top so that no shadows are green, and use overlays and backgrounds disappear.Wefor magazine covers and realistic special effects.
People do not realize that, in general, the patterns of magazines before heading title, but go beyond the informative text! And be sure to copyright, design your own magazine covers, which are similar but not identical, you can buy these from the United States as an overlay .. PNG files are best, but the click does not work, you have to do what we do and switch.
Obama is the President made a good example, is on the second floor, guestsare falling in the upper left, then the desktop is included as an overlay on the front.
6 From a business event photography.
Do not you think some are the seller, it is a license to print money, right! This is their job and do it too, but like any field it is necessary to work hard on it. Most professional photographers woudn't dream of doing a photo shoot and provides a large framed photograph of ten dollars! And I do not think just because you get a reservation at a black tie event, for example,with people who are selling 100 to 100 photos!
30% of these people will not even took a picture! This is the way it is. There is a lot of people want to put a picture on your own, and there is always a large group who just wants one shot everyone, but for the purchase of additional copies at a discounted price. This leaves the pairs, so you get about five individuals, a large group and twenty pairs.
You will earn more than £ 300 for an event of this size.Ok, this is a small event, but only two people can meet, so just to pay an assistant. Then there are the costs for printing, stirrups and bags, travel costs, insurance costs, not a time to bundle up the silent install and an hour down, and hours, sometimes a lot of waiting for a dinner speech at the end.
Do not forget the website that you must book the advertising, the cost of all equipment, Web site marketing, administration and post-production will take pictureson-line. The cost of normal working hours for office supplies, telephone bills, advertising, insurance and all the gear.
Keep in mind there are also a lot of great photographers out there, and everyone has a camera, lens and a fast printer to buy and go and do it. Large companies have already sewn on the major events, so you need to use contacts to ask for, promote and encourage. They offer some small events free to do the practice, but still pay the current rate. Even if you only sell 10fires in one night, the first experience is valuable to manage an event of a busy signal.
Once you show for the reservation, sprinkled on some pop-up banner, what you do, flyers and business cards. When you get there and setup a few test shots of the bar staff, waiters and organizers to test everything. Frame on this and give them a gift, who asks her to show guests! Great advertising! Get the DJ, the guests, where you are and say what you are doing. The work of the tables whenRest. Above all, have fun and be polite and professional as are all of us!
This is enough for now reveals its secrets, if someone wants to be happy any questions. This is only my opinion and experience so far, I'll add more as I have time. If you find this useful at all, please tell others, I am not charging at all writing this, I'm not selling anything, but the links are much appreciated for my site, or a mention in any blog, etc. Regards Paul Harrison
