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Originally Posted by Stissy
Morning,
I’ve been offered a job as a nightclub photographer, I was wondering if any of you have experience in doing it? I remember a thread a while back with some black and white pictures of a nightclub, but I can’t remember who posted it.
I need some advice, I have a canon 600d with 18-55 mkII and 50mm f1.8 lenses. I’m looking at buying a flash and a new lens suitable for the job. What’s a good choice? Would the 17-55 f2.8 be suitable? close range, fairly wide, decent f/stop, £220(ish) which is about how much I want to spend. Or is there anything else?
Also what’s a good flash? I have no idea about flashes. Do I want one that sits in the hot-shoe or a separate handheld one for this type of photography?
Cheers.
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Hi Stissy
I am a full time photographer, and I cut my teeth in nightclubs so heres my two cents:
Get a 480ex either mk1 or 2, you might get a good cashback deal with canons winter cash back and get it for as little as 150 quid
The 17-55 f2.8 lens is really good, I use it at weddings but the stock 18-55 is great too for nightclubs, quality is not really that important for nightclubs as the photos are usually just put on Facebook.
You wont use the 50mm lens as on the 600D with the 1.6x crop factor it becomes more like a 70mm lens, making it useless for close action shots, just stick the zoom lens on and keep it on all night.
I suggest you get an off camera flash cable, they can be really useful in certain situations or to make the photos look edgy but I usually just stick the flash in the hot shoe on top of the camera and bounce the flash off the ceiling or on the surroundings. MAKE SURE YOU GET A FLASH DIFFUSER!!!!!
GET CAMERA INSURANCE TOO! The club wont give a crap if a drunk guy knocks your camera out your hands, if you upgrade to the 17-55 f2.8 you're talking about walking around with at least 1000+ quid worth of gear, easy pickings at 3am too.
If you want any advice feel free to pm me and il point you in the right direction, and give you a few tips too, is this a selling key chains job or do you get paid per night and not have to do a hard sell?