Tips Shooting In Church

Here are some of my tips for those of you who love to take pictures in the church (these tips are based on the use of my digital SLR camera, but

not enclosed the application for a pocket digital camera that has the ability to manually set and can use additional flash):
A. Always a time to yourself to mengsurvey or see it before the wedding day you are going to church interiors before D-day portrait photography, to get the position / angle of the camera settings are appropriate and proper for certain moments. In contrast to other indoor shooting, which allows us to capture as much as possible (and correct decision is less than perfect), we are almost impossible to do in church worship atmosphere that demands reverence. Imagine when Mr. / Mrs. Pastor was preaching, and we continue to splatter his pulpit (since the images that we consider less than perfect), or we are pacing as iron finding the right place to take pictures of when service is running, it will certainly distract the congregation that is worship.
2. In general, we do not have enough room to take pictures in the church, especially on days when the church was full-fledged, like on Christmas Day and New Year. Use of the zoom lens with wide angle-telephoto range is very helpful. You do not have to retreat too far to include all objects in your picture frame (and crashed into the church that sits in the back with your buttocks like a vespa sexy '60s output), so you do not have advanced to the front face of Mr / Mrs Pastor (and make him nervous, so that one said in his sermon), just to take a close-up face. For digital SLR cameras with sensor sizes + / - 1.5x, 18-70mm zoom lens (equivalent to 28-105mm zoom lens if you use a digital camera full-frame SLR, just multiplied by approximately 1.5x only) is sufficient for you to take pictures freely. The lens zoom range beneath (12-24mm) or higher (70-300mm, 80-200, 80-400mm) according to the opinion of the writer is not practical in use. The author's experience with zoom lenses such as 70-300mm or 80-400mm, for example, it is somewhat inconvenient, because it's hard to aim at objects in the crowd with such a narrow perspective (everything becomes very large) generated by the zoom lens with Such measures, especially if we suddenly had to retreat to include as many objects as possible to the picture frame. Maybe it is different if you take pictures in the church who really wide, like St. Peter's Basilica, where the zoom lens with a range like that to get the appropriate use (you may be able to Pope mengclose-up away from the entrance end of the church).
3. The lens used is better than a strong high lens, with f-stop 2.8 or greater (f-number is smaller stopnya, F1.4, f1.2). This would be very useful when you for example have to take a picture of minimal lighting conditions (such as Christmas candles lit and the lights turned off), without having to compensate by shooting speed is very slow (which happens when you use a powerful lens the lens is rather weak), so the risk of blurred images. But if you do not have a powerful zoom lens with an appropriate lens, do not be discouraged. Zoom lens of a powerful lens weaker (f3.5-5.6 for example) can also be forced into the lens of the 'fast', by raising the ISO / ASA in your camera (and thus the speed of retrieval will be faster) to the limit is still safe (picture does not look so noisy as the old HP camera images when enlarged full size on a computer screen).
4. Interior of the church in general, broad and full of small details scattered in various places, especially Catholic churches filled with distinctive ornaments East. To obtain sharp images and clear of all that, the use of maximum image settings (among others: the large size, JPEG Fine, or RAW, if you do not bother to convert it on the computer after the photo shoot), ISO / ASA level (ISO 100/200 for example), and a relatively small aperture (large f-stop numbers) such as F8, F11, F16 are mandatory. With its small size, you will lose the opportunity to display the results of your images without a 'break' in the frame of your church consistory in space (and lose the chance to stand close to someone in your church's appraiser, who happened to be admiring the picture) . At ISO 400 and above, there is a chance the picture will become more noisy. So also with the use of the diaphragm, will result in shallow depth-of-field (other objects of different distances to the objects which we focus in the camera frame will be blurred). Unless the lighting conditions are really inadequate, and forced us to use a large aperture (point no. 3).
5. In connection with point no. 4 above, the use of a monopod / tripod is also a mandatory thing. This is because the photo shoot with a small aperture generally result in slowing down the speed of image capture, as compensation to include more light to the sensor. Terekamnya slow pace synonymous with vibration, and vibration terekamnya cause blurred images. Indeed, you can activate anti-vibration function on the camera or your lens (if any), such as VR (Vibration Reduction) in Nikon or IS (Image Stabilizer) in the Canon. But according to the author's experience, a good tripod remains the most powerful weapon in the fight against camera shake. You also can slightly improve the situation by using the flash, or push the ISO / ASA to a safe limit. But if we use the flash with a shooting speed pretty quickly (1/60 sec for example), objects in the distance will usually be less tercahayai. So we still have to take a picture with a relatively slow speed (maybe 1/30, or even 1/15 sec). So is the high ISO settings are not always able to help you (such as where the circumstances quite dark), not to mention the risk of a noisy image.
6. Using the flash (if needed) should be directed to the above (bounce), or by using a diffuser, to smooth and soften the flash light. If we take a picture with the flash mounted horizontally, then the object close to us would seem very luminous (dark hair on the head for example), while other objects at a distance it looks dim, so the picture becomes strange results. But in those moments when the church was filled with light the candle and the lights turned off, do not use the flash, because it will only damage the shades only (photo to be 'false').
7. As much as possible, in the midst of your busy taking pictures (especially if you are a member of the documentation section of the church), then follow the existing worship, because that is your goal, especially coming into the church, which is to worship it? Therefore, bring an assistant to help you replace the battery, bag for taking your photographic equipment, etc., so you still managed to lead worship there. Thank God, I have the "Helper commensurate" my faithful help in that, though often I saw his face frowned as her makeup looks 'broken' because it is added with accessories such as a large camera bag or tripod, he3x.
8. The last (but most important), pray always, before taking a picture, so that your photo shoot went well, and you still do not lose their meaning in worship!

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