No Plans, Ended Well, My 50mm/1.8 Canon Lens Did it All!
Sometimes… No no no… Most of the times, things really work out well without a plan. We sheduled a photo shoot in the office for some marketing collaterals today. We did not brainstored about what to compose, I actually thought that the photo session will not push through since the person coordinating had just came back from her Coron vacation yesterday(Yes Kat it’s you).
I received a text saying “Please bring your camera, photo shoot today”. Whoaaa, I don’t have the studio lights, I don’t have sketches of what to compose, no reflectors, worst, it’s raining, no sunlight, aaaaaarrrggggghhhhhh. In situations like this where I don’t have the lighting equipment and natural light is absent, there’s only one thing that I know will not fail me during the photo shoot, my Canon 50mm/1.8 Lens.
I packed up my old camera (I don’t have a new one anyway), a Canon Digital Rebel and went to the office. Everything was shot using available light which is mostly flourescent. I set my camera to Av Priority, Adobe RGB profile and fixed at f1.8 most of the time and moving up two or three f stops once in a while. Even at ISO 100, I always get a shutter speed of 1/100 or 1/50, not bad! I will be needing a bigger aperture most of the time so I went on.
Here are the things I did to survive:
- Press the shutter during exhales, this helped me to keep a steady hand.
- Look for a different location if shutter speed falls below 1/50.
- Take lots of shots, I took 150 shots during the 2 hour session.
- Shout freeze! Having steady hands is useless if the subject moves a lot.
- Shoot near the window.
I’ll be posting the results in my next post.
