How to shoot a fashion show?

[lomesh_patel]

<p>I am about to shoot my first fashion show. I wanted to see if any of you guys have any advise for me. What type of lense to use? What type of flash to use? Any other tips that would help me. <br>

Thank you in advance.</p>

[kristinsson]

<p>It all depends. Runway? Position? Camera? You probably need some decent speedy glass. A 50mm F1.4 or 30 F1.4 if near or a decent zoom if from a bit more far. Depending on camera aswell. Get a TTL flash compatible with your camera system, will probably help you get decent exposures if you're not used to flash work.</p>

[lomesh_patel]

<p>I will be shooting with D90 with SB-900. The lenses i have are tamron f/2.8 24-75 or nikon 1.8 mm</p>

[kristinsson]

<p>Not so sure about how Nikon works, but I think you should be pretty set with that equipment if you can get pretty close to the people you're photographing.<br>

Use the flash in iTTL-auto but be prepared to lower the effect and add some ambient into it (use a longer shutter speed, and maybe a smaller aperture), so you freeze the action with the flash but you get the lightning from location (if it's nice). Just enough to get the ambient but not enough to get blurry action, but set the flash to 2nd curtain anyway so it fires at the end instead of at the beginning, that way if you get any trails they won't look backward. This will work if they like pose for a second or so, but might be harder if they are constantly moving.<br>

Otherwise you could probably get pretty decent exposures using a fast sync speed (fixed) with iTTL in Av mode or so.<br>

What I would bring in case is a longer lens in case you are further away from the objects.</p>