Timeline for I was just approached to do nightclub photography, I've never done it before and I want to know what I need to pull it off
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| Jan 30, 2019 at 22:57 | comment | added | Michael C | No. It just seems that many specialties that are no longer viable business models in the U.S. (such as freelance sports - images that used to pay $250 from SI , TSN, or IS, now pay $2.50 from Getty) are still doing a little better in Europe. There are always a few clients in the right markets who will pay for quality. Things are worse here now than they were four years ago when shutterbug published this article: shutterbug.com/content/… | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 22:53 | comment | added | Abdul N Quraishi | @MichaelC - and what culture would that be? are you discriminating or being racist? are you making assumptions based on my name? FYI, I may have a foreign sounding name, but I am a 3rd Gen Londoner. So my guess would be, my culture is the UK culture! what ever that maybe. I also have clients in the US so its these people that find it acceptable to pay what may seem over the odds to some people. | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 22:34 | comment | added | Michael C | @AbdulQuraishi I hope that in your culture photography continues to be valued enough that customers are willing to pay enough for quality images that one can continue to make a living at it. Sadly, in too many places, the only acceptable price for image creation by way too many potential "customers" seems to be "exposure", rather than compensation. | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 22:29 | comment | added | Abdul N Quraishi | @MichaelC - in business there is no space for assumptions or presumptions! until you don't ask the question, you don't get the answer! and since when is Photography a Habit? smoking is a habit! if you put your business cap on, you will notice that photography can be a very real job! | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 21:10 | comment | added | Michael C | "... why would the manager approach someone else to take the pictures?" Because he wants someone cheaper/free? Because the other guy doesn't want to do it anymore (or maybe he got a real job to support his photography habit that requires working weekend nights)? | |
| Jan 27, 2019 at 19:09 | comment | added | diece | Well, that shoot went really well. Here's some pictures from the night. ibb.co/pwFmf5n ibb.co/vzLdNxS ibb.co/KbH9S4L | |
| Jan 26, 2019 at 22:00 | comment | added | Abdul N Quraishi | @Micheal C - Good point about not showing the venue, but the question remains, why would the manager approach someone else to take the pictures? OP needs to ask this ask question. Regarding using f/2.8, trust me, you will get a lot of ambient light, but of course, ideally f/1.4 will be better, but then the trade off happens between either a wide angle zoom lens at f/2.8 or a 28mm at f1.8 or 50mm at 1.4. I found the compromise in aperture compensated for the FOV when in tight situations. | |
| Jan 26, 2019 at 17:13 | comment | added | Michael C | On the other hand, if the club is as much of a dump as it appears to be in the sample photos, maybe the entire point is to not show the distinctive features of the club? In a club that dark, f/2.8 doesn't begin get it for using ambient light as the main illumination, either, particularly not with a crop body. f/1.4 or f/2 and a FF sensor is still going to need flash as the primary light source. | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 20:23 | comment | added | xiota | Can you include a sample image to illustrate what you are talking about? | |
| Jan 24, 2019 at 13:28 | history | answered | Abdul N Quraishi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |