Santa Pictures - Help!

MDalby

All,

I am a rookie photographer and I have been asked to take the photos with Santa tomorrow. I will be taking about 300 photos and I need to make sure that I have the best settings possible.

I have the Nikon D300 and the Nikon SB-800 Speedlight Flash.

What settings do you recommend that I have set for AF, flash etc.

The pictures will be in a church and a large room. I have a Expo Disc for hte white balance. I don't have a flash tree so I will be using my flash on the body of hte camera.

What shoudl I set the flash at? I plan on using the diffuser.

Thanks,

MD

sweet caroline

Sorry if my reply is late- computer problems. I just did Santa photos last week in a church gym with my D300 and SB600 in an umbrella. I also used a white board (the back side of a fundraiser poster that was on hand) as a reflector. I had my camera in Manual with a shutter speed at 80. Flash in ttl mode. Aperture maybe around 5.6? Subjects about 6 feet from a wall, on which a red table cloth had been taped for a background and a tree near the background about 2-3 feet behind Santa's chair. Here's an example:



Hope this helps.

Caroline

Scott_Quier

And it looks like you did good there, Caroline!

sweet caroline

Scott_Quier wrote:

And it looks like you did good there, Caroline!

Thanks, Scott.

MD... How did it go today? Let us know.

Caroline

angevin1

Yeah, nice Santa and photo! How did it go??

curious, tom