Band Photos Railroad Tracks
Help! Need to take outdoor promotional photos for a band!?
I’ve been asked to take some photos of an R&B and Hip Hop band for them to use on their website. It’s an opportunity for me to build my portfolio as a starting-out photographer.
We are going to do several different locations, something industrial, abandoned warehouse, railroad tracks type of scenes. My question is this:
What settings am I going to want to use mid-day (assuming it’s sunny) outdoors to get the best possible photos for these guys as possible? Is a tripod really essential? (I don’t like the idea of being restricted into one place). ISO? Aperature? Help please! As my first gig, I don’t want to screw this up and want to end up with the best possible photos.
For the record, I use a Sony DSLR A300 camera. I currently have 2 lenses, a 18-70 and 75-300. Should I be using another lens type for photos like this?
Thanks in advance, my shoot is 3 days from now!
In addition to the good advice you already have take the time to do a custom white balance. If you can get a color card its a good idea to shoot a shot of that at the beginning of each location for later color calibration For sunny outside mid day use the sunny 16 rule to start and bracket your shots when you can Think about investing in a reflector or use a homemade one as midday shadows can be a problem, a speedlight for fill light is also not a bad idea
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