How do I get good party-shots

Darkness, changing light and moving subjects: to take good pictures at a party or at a nightclub is sometimes not so easy, however, is expected in both the photographic use at weddings and many other events. With a few tricks and you succeed good party shots.There does not need a lot of photographic equipment. 

The mood that atmospher e and the people above all, however, the right accessories - scan skillfully usually requires at the Party Photography little practice. What the ambitious party photographer should be without the equipment under any circumstances, is an external compact flash. Set to Automatic (with Canon E-TTL, Nikon i-TTL) and use a small softbox . Or a diffuser

You can easily turn his head upwards or sideways to avoid "totzublitzen" your motives.Nevertheless bounce flash is not much - the ceiling in night clubs or public facilities are usually high and rather dark and it would be likely to reflect very little light. When it comes to lenses are primarily standard zoom lenses as with a focal length of 24-70mm and a possible open aperture. Since the lighting conditions in such situations usually are rather poor and change the party lights repeatedly illuminate manually. A good setting is in this case a shutter speed of 1/30 second with an ISO setting of ISO 800. An aperture setting of f / 8 gives the record in this case an adequate depth of field. A high set ISO value allows the way also that - capturing light atmosphere around with the image - mostly yes very nice.