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Ripley

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My husband is in WA at his brother's wedding (not his first marriage so just having it at someone's house). It's raining and gloomy. He will be taking photos indoors at night. He has an Olympus E400 DSLR. No idea how to use it as he has no idea about photography. I don't think they have even hired a photographer :(

He also doesn't have a tripod. I've told him to up the ISO to 400 (the Olympus is noisy past that point) and put it on P mode and shoot in Raw so I can remove the ugly flash colour cast in PS later.

However, that can still give blur.

What can you suggest? He doesn't have a tripod. He has no idea about M AV or TV either.

I have a feeling these photos are going to be an absolute disaster.

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JAG

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Ripley can you PM someone who is in the know? OR maybe get their phone number and give them a call?

Have you tried googling how to?

I know I am not much help sorry...

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Ripley

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Thanks!

I've told him to put the camera on P and ISO 800 and I'll try and remove noise later in PS. If that fails he can pop up the flash manually but I think the photos will look nicer with no on camera flash.

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Hold his breathe. No kidding hold as still as possible and hold breathe. Or use something to prop elbows on (chair/table) but still hold breathe when pressing button (do this slowly and carefully too).

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My husband is in WA at his brother's wedding (not his first marriage so just having it at someone's house). It's raining and gloomy. He will be taking photos indoors at night. He has an Olympus E400 DSLR. No idea how to use it as he has no idea about photography. I don't think they have even hired a photographer :laugh:

He also doesn't have a tripod. I've told him to up the ISO to 400 (the Olympus is noisy past that point) and put it on P mode and shoot in Raw so I can remove the ugly flash colour cast in PS later.

However, that can still give blur.

What can you suggest? He doesn't have a tripod. He has no idea about M AV or TV either.

I have a feeling these photos are going to be an absolute disaster.

Sorry too late to see this one Ripley. One way out is to up the ISO to 800 to get a result without camera shake - decent shutter speed. Try keeping around f8. Then invest in a good thing called Noise Ninja. You can download it a pay on line. It will do a much much better job than PhotoShop of taking noise out. I think their website is picturecode.com - and yes definitely in Raw. And tell him don't forget the extra shots, - shoes, head-pieces, bouquet.

Edit to add: Noise Ninja is about $85 and worth it. Let's know how he goes with the night, could turn out a lot better than he expects.

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Ripley

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OH has a far steadier hand than I do, I'm hopeless and have to hold my breath and find a tree to lean on if I'm hand holding with a lens - or OH's broad shoulders. :laugh:

I texted him while the wedding was on and he rang me not long ago and said the photos look fine on his camera screen and he used ISO 400 and 800 and P mode as I said in my text message. The Olympus has a setting called 'indoor lighting' or something, so he chose that. I haven't looked at his camera, he got it through work and I haven't had time to study it.

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