basic settings

Raz_kim · Oct 30, 2016

Hi
I am an amateur photographer focusing on landscapes and wildlife.
And i was asked to photograph a day party,like a rave.
I would love if u could recommend me what my basic settings should be.Im using Canon 1100d with a standard lens.
the party is during daylight.
I hope my result will be like this album
Amir Weiss | Facebook

The_Traveler · Oct 30, 2016

Beyond the settings, that photographer has a good eye and is unafraid to get in there and shoot.
He knows how to change focal length, f stop and shutter speed to catch the action or get the DOF he wants for the shot.
Since you seem to know absolutely nothing about your camera and photography, I suggest you use the mode settings - portrait, action etc, do teh zooming to fill the frame and forget about trying to learn right now.

photo1x1.com · Oct 30, 2016

Raz_kim said:
Hi
I am an amateur photographer focusing on landscapes and wildlife.
And i was asked to photograph a day party,like a rave.
I would love if u could recommend me what my basic settings should be.Im using Canon 1100d with a standard lens.
the party is during daylight.
I hope my result will be like this album
Amir Weiss | Facebook

Hi,
those pics are rather heavily processed - I guess they are shot in RAW and processed in an image editing tool like lightroom, etc..
They have a somewhat matte look, which you can achieve by working on the curves dragging the whitepoint down and the blackpoint up. Afterwards he added some contrast back in.
The colors are manipulated in a way that looks like "split toning" to me. That too can be done in lightroom and you can even create templates to apply to all your images. But don´t do that on jpgs, use RAW.
What most of the images have in common is rather shallow depth, so you would want your aperture to be as open as possible (lower the aperture-number as much as you can).

A general recommendation isn´t really possible because you don´t know yet what weather and lightingconditions will be there, but Av mode is your preferred choice for these kind of images - or if you are familiar with shooting manual, that would be a great option too.
What the photographer in your link did, was avoid sunlight in the faces of the people and photograph them either in the shade, or in backlight.

Does that help?

Raz_kim · Oct 30, 2016

Ya it helps.I uploaded the album not because that is the style i'm trying to get.
the album is to show you what would the party look like.
lots of colors, daylight,people on the move etc...

Derrel · Oct 30, 2016

Well, for "people on the move" in daylight conditions, there is a shutter speed range which will blur movement, and a shutter speed range that will stop movement crisply; that is a critical decision. My feeling is that for festivals like this, the best choice with a modern d-slr is ISO 400, which gives better motion-stopping ability than ISO 200 or ISO 100 would give, and also gives two moe full f/stops' worth of depth of field. With a wide-angle lens, or a semi-wide angle lens, this means ISO 400 and f/7.1 and about 1/250 to 1/1000 second under many brighter-light type shooting conditions. How about Programmed Auto mode, at ISO 400?

If you're unsure about basic settings, RAW capture mode is always,always,always the best starting point. That gives maximum editing potential for later. ISO? 400, not 200, not 100; if you're asking about basics, then by all means, START at ISO 400 for this type of festival or event; the shutter speed and end f/stop are vastly MORE-critical than a small bit of technical or theoretical image quality gain that the lowest ISO possible will give: you told us there camera model. so we know it has adequate dynamic range and quality in RAW mode at ISO 400...it is no longer 2002, so ISO 100 is a bad start point for your specific situation.

Editing: these are obviously edited. Lower saturation, shifted black point, "Instagram-era" look to the finished shots. There are Lightroom presets that can deliver this type of look with ease. I personally enjoy this look on the right types of subjects. it is, after all, 2016, not 1985, so this look is very current, very much of the era.