Indoor Car Show - What Settings??

[Adz The Rat]

Im going down to Telford tomorrow to the Ultimate Dubs show, it is indoors at the Telford International Centre so everything is lit with those horrible yellow strip lights.

What camera settings should I be using?
I will be taking my Nikon D7000 with a Sigma 15-30 wide lens and a tripod.


For those that havent been this is what the indoors looks like:



UD09 by Adam Kennedy Photography, on Flickr

I took that pic 2 year ago when I had a D40 and just left it on auto, I want to get some better shots than that this time.

[Robert C]

Personally when I taking pictures indoors at any car show I always shoot in RAW.

In the post processing you can then change the colour temperature to get a more natural colour. Even shooting with flash does not quite get rid of the effects of the hall lighting. This was taken at the NEC where the lighting is appalling!

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This is the original :



Hope that helps

Robert

[Adz The Rat]

I always shoot in RAW anyway so like you say I can make the colours better with that.

Im thinking of putting it in Aperture priority mode and letting the camera do the shutter speed on its own?

[RobDickinson]

I'd take a WB reading anyhow, but under flourescent lights the wb changes somewhat as the tubes cycle so fast shutter speeds can show this up (I think)..

I'd be in Av mode with auto ISO on my canon.

The funky thing about the D7000 is that you can pretty much ignore ISO, just shoot at the right shutter speed and aperture then push it in post and it will turn out as good as bumping the ISO.

(aka base iso is all you need).