Tips on...Capturing DJ's at work (Dance club)

• Include lost of subjects (A bouncer, bar staff, dancers, crowds and DJ's) fast food vendors outside.
• Use an off-camera flash this will give you better directional control over the shadows.
• Shooting people dancing
  • Each nightclub will have different lighting setups so there are no hard rules around this, here are some tips
  • Set your flash to manual sync at around 1/60 with an f 6.3. This works well when shooting a meter away from the crowd
  • From a longer distance, set aperture to f5.
  • For wide angle crowd shots raise ISO to 800 set to f5 and change the flash to sync to 1/30
• Your pictures on a dance club should reflect movement and be dynamic, play with the flash setting to show light trails
• Also your settings will be different on the dance floor from the DJ Booth. Remember if using flash the light will bounce now from the ceiling.
• Shoot light trails, if you are shooting a dance club include movement on the shots by using longer exposures to add light trails. Use first curtain sync to freeze the image, after the flash try either rotating or moving the camera or zooming out to add some great colored motion