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Been asked to photograph an event for work

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Taking the knob factor out of the equation, it would be the better lens to use for candid shots.

Your 16-35 may also be no better for shallow depth of field than the 24-105. I'd expect that a 105mm portrait up fairly close at f/4 would be narrower than 35mm f2.8.


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This is the foyer where the candids will be

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Oh awesome. They want me to photograph some prize winners as well :( For free!
Good job I bought a flash recently.

I'm guessing I can just put it in ETTL, go for something like 85mm and F4 and point the flash up at about 45 degrees and the camera should do the rest?
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Not too bad

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And these are pictures I took in town at lunchtime and just about avoided a huge downpour.

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I think I did a little better this year as I took some more 'story telling' type pictures and I managed to find some places to scope out candid shots which worked a bit better. My 100mm F2.8 macro worked best of all. Good range and nice and wide in the low light giving me good options to play with. In the afternoon I used the 16-35mm to get wider shots of what was going on and I tried some longer exposures (0.5-2secs) from a staircase to try and be a bit different on a couple of the foyer shots.

I wasn't particularly happy with the prize winner ones at the end but they'll do I think. I probably didn't really set the flash up right and the lighting in the auditorium was rubbish. I should have also set the ISO a bit higher to get the shutter speed up a bit more but you earn from these things as you go I guess.
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I really like the outdoor ones Kev, the bikes in the rain being the pick for me.
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Woo doing this again tomorrow :(

Hopefully get some better pics of the winners this year. I need to find a better location during the day for the hand shaky pictures I think. Trouble is these places are always really dark!

Hopefully try and get some 'story' shots of the day again too.
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