Essential The Official Photography Thread

[Majestyx]

shot and edited weddings/baptisms/music videos

working on a short and interviews

adobe premiere + adobe after effects

you use anything for stabilization other than just holding the shyt?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

swag

Flickr explore (top 500 of the 4 million pics uploaded yesterday)


414455 by MrEllis, on Flickr

 

[Black_Tux.]

Great photos. Quick questions:

What lens are you using? Please tell us how you achieved that distored effect. I've been trying to do it for the longest. What settings do you use for your indoor photography? Do you use flash?

thanks

I use a combo of a 35mm 1.8 and a 18-200. Trynna get that 28 2.8 though .

And an external flash unit is a must for the effect you're going for. Lower the shutter speed, and use external flash to freeze the subject/maintain all the lights in the club.

Sometimes if I really like the photo I take it into Photoshop real quick and add a radial blur and drop the opacity/layer mask the effect.

 

[GoldenGlove]

185/365 by K e N, on Flickr

 

[GoldenGlove]

Pooh & Caleb by K e N, on Flickr


Caked Up by K e N, on Flickr

 

[DamonDashsRocAFellaChain]

 

[GoldenGlove]

186/365 by K e N, on Flickr

 

[GoldenGlove]

187/365 by K e N, on Flickr

 

[DamonDashsRocAFellaChain]

Video I directed

 

[Super Cheech]

Sony a57
18-55 Lens

 

[GoldenGlove]

188/365 by K e N, on Flickr

 

[JasonSJackson]

Some pics from a reggae festival yesterday

 

[Crakface]

185/365 by K e N, on Flickr

What manual settings you use for this night time photo. Had to be fast because those fireworks are hard to get.

 

[GoldenGlove]

What manual settings you use for this night time photo. Had to be fast because those fireworks are hard to get.

I didn't have the shutter speed that fast because I wanted to have some of the light trail from the fireworks.

It's at 1/20 in that shot with the aperture at 1.8. ISO at 800.

 

[Black_Tux.]

I didn't have the shutter speed that fast because I wanted to have some of the light trail from the fireworks.

It's at 1/20 in that shot with the aperture at 1.8. ISO at 800.

Tripod?

Club photography is not really art, its a hustle more than anything.

Unfortunately nobody really cares about club photography.....see one pic and you've seen them all. People just check the website so they can post their pics on instagram/facebook. Its almost not the worth the effort. I still shoot at VICE and fashion week events though where they actually care about photography.


Nice pics though!

Yeahh, true. But you could argue that photography itself is not an art. You're capturing/documenting art but not creating it.

It is more of a hustle than anything though.. but damn if people are taking pics and putting their own name on it have some damn pride in your own name


theres definitely some wicked club photos out there though. it can look artistic.

not my photos. but this guy makes bank from his photos.