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Event photography

Started 2 months ago | Discussions thread
Jared Willson Senior Member • Posts: 1,504
Re: Event photography
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Since you are using strobes, presumably your ISO won't be particularly high, so no need for noise reduction. I would leave that turned off. What you might consider is using one of the film simulation modes that has lower contrast. That will reduce the unevenness in skin tones without reducing detail. I would play around a little bit before the event starts to see if you like the look of, for example, "Pro Negative Standard". Don't worry too much about the label--choose whichever one you think looks best with your lighting conditions. There is some variability in what film simulations are available in which cameras, but definitely worth taking a look.

As others have mentioned, definitely worthwhile to shoot RAW and JPG together. That way, if you get it "right" in camera you will be good to go with the JPG's and won't need any heavy editing. But if you find when you get back to the camera that you have messed up the white balance, or that the film simulation you chose really didn't work well, you'll have tons of latitude to make adjustments since you'll have 16 bit files.

Best of luck!

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