Taking Good Club Photos

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essexuncovered.com's club photos may not win any photography awards, but for the best photos there are some pointers that will help you take not only better club photos, but ensure the site visitors will get exactly what they want.

We have been taking photos on essexuncovered for over 4 years. With thousands of photos under our belts we can help you take a better club photo for essexuncovered.com

Portrait or landscape?

Generally, if you are taking photos of 1 or 2 people together then portrait is better. If there are three or more a landscape photo will produce a better result.

This photo would have been better taken landscape and cropped right in with the tops of the heads at the top of the photo.

When there are several people in the photo then landscape is the preferred option.

With 1 or 2 people in the photo the portrait is normally the best choice. This photo taken landscape would mean there is a lot of background and not as much foreground.

Good Framing

Taking photos with your digital camera in the daytime is easy. You can see the subject through the viewfinder. When you are in a nightclub the viewfinder is probably going to be a black square. We have found if the lights are flashing, you can normally make out the tops of the subjects head. It is better to crop a bit from the top of their head rather than have loads of space at the top of the photo.

In this photo the photographer has taken a lot of blank space above their heads.

The cropping for this photo would have been better in closer without any ceiling space. Use the flashing of the nightclub lights to find the tops of their heads in your viewfinder and make sure this is lined up in your camera to be the top of the photo.

Quality / Camera Resolution

Almost all of today's modern cameras will be good enough quality to use for club website photography. Our preferred minimum pixel size is 1280 x 960 pixels (pix, px or points) taken in fine mode. If you are not sure what image size your camera is taking then put one of the photos on to your computer and open in your imaging software and got the size menu to find out the dimensions. As long as it is 1280 x 960 or lager then the photo will be big enough. Too big and the photos will fill up loads of room on the camera. As a file size guide each photo waken with the setting as above will be approximately 500 - 600 kb. If they are coming in at 1000 kb+ then you may wish to reduce the file size to save room on your memory card.

Getting photos on to CD

May places will now take the chip from your camera and put straight on to a CD for you if you do not have the options to do this yourself.

If you fancy taking photos for essexuncovered.com then visit our guide on how to take good club photos and then get out there with your camera. Send you photos on CD to:

essexuncovered.com
374 Victoria Ave
Southend on Sea
Essex
SS2 6NA

Let us know your essexuncovered username so we can link the photos to your profile.

If you pre-arrange it with the club then you may even get in for free!

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