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Aarons 30th Birthday

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This was a great fun 80’s Theme Fancy Dress Party at a really nice venue called “Smiles” in Warranwood.

Plenty of colourful costumes and fun times made this a great photoshoot.

A full Flickr Gallery of Photos can be viewed here:

Flickr Photo Gallery of Aaron’s 30th Birthday

 

EQUIPMENT:

Sony Alpha A-77 Camera
Tamron 17-50mm F2.8

Sony HVL-F43M Flash
Gary Fong Gamma Blade Diffuser

This shoot was reasonably straight forward, and was done entirely with Flash.

The only issue was that some of the background walls were a light grey colour, which did cause a lot of light reflection when the flash went off.

The venue also contained two huge mirrrors, and so people had to be positioned so that the mirrors would not pick up any of the flash in them.

The Sony A77 revelled in these conditions, as Sony photos love bright colours and capture them beautifully.

The Flash unit was set to Manual, and a width of 50mm used for most shots, and the power varied and shots repeated if they were too dull. This was especially the case on larger group shots which were shot at an aperture of F5.0 to get everyone in focus.

The camera was also set to full Manual Mode, “M” with ISO set at 1000, shutter speed at 1/125, and Aperture varied from 2.8 to 5.0 depending on how many people were in the Group.

Overall a great fun shoot, and the resulting photos really pleased the Client.

 

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Birthday Parties

Mel’s 18th Birthday

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Recently we did the Photos for a young lady’s 18th Birthday party.

The event was outdoors and indoors with a great Marquis area setup for sit down eating, complete with Popcorn and FairyFloss Maker.

This made for some great color and photos.

 

A full Flickr Gallery of Photos can be viewed at this link:

Flickr Photo Gallery of Mel’s 18th Birthday

 

The full photo gallery can also be found on the Photos By Passy Facebook Page:

Photos By Passy Facebook Page

 

EQUIPMENT:

Sony Alpha A-77
Tamron 24-70mm F2.8
On Board Sony Flash (for fill flash)

Most shots were taken with the camera set to an automatic “Portrait Mode” using the SCN setting on the Sony A-77.

Due to the bright sunlight, we knew that we would need to do Fill Flash to blast away sharp shadows on People’s faces.

We were set up to go with the Yongnuo Flash and a Gary Fong Lightsphere Diffuser; however Yongnuo incompatibility problems arose and the flash refused to communicate with the camera, and would not flash in any shooting mode, even with forced fill flash turned on.

This meant we were forced to use the Sony A-77’s inbuilt flash, with no diffuser, but surprisingly it did a reasonable job.

Many shots were a bit overexposed, but this was easily fixed during post-processing in Photoshop.

There was a problem with people squinting in sunlight, but we did our best to reposition subjects in their poses to avoid this.

Taking photos inside a Jumping Castle was also a difficult job fraught with danger!

We were very happy with the performance of the Tamron 24-70mm lens, coupled with Portrait mode on the A-77. This combination produced some very nice soft but reasonably sharp portrait shots.

 

For the party someone had made a nice portable painted cardboard picture frame, that people could hold around them while photos were taken.

When we saw this Photo Frame, we thought it would be a good idea to have a dark uniform background to do the frame pictures in, but it turned out that this was a bad idea.

We wasted a fair amount of time and effort trying to setup a good photobooth area to do handheld frame shots in. It turned out that it was better to just wander around the event, and grap people weherever they were and get them to hold the frame around them and snap the shot.

Something else we need to watch out for at parties, are bright yellow power extrension leads draped all ove3r the place. They are very bright, stand out strongly in photos, and are very hard to photoshop out during post processing.

 

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