Camera setting question

[UPinFocus]

I've been asked to take pictures for a "red carpet event". The event will have an area with a backdrop set up for pictures. I just got my camera yesterday....rebel T6. What would a good setting/mode to use? Also I am brand new to the DSLR cameras. Thanks!

[ebiggs1]

"...you may be able to sponge off the TV lights..."

Love it!  I am guilty. 

[kvbarkley]

I really doubt that an event that is having a person who just got his DSLR do the formal pictures is going to have TV lights, but you never know.

Around the turn of the century I did some portraits with my Canon A400 (3.2 MPixels!) and Selphy printer for instant halloween portraits. It actually turned out much better than I could have hoped. They main problem was that the printer was too slow.

[BurnUnit]

For that matter, I suppose it could be an outdoor, daytime event. If the OP goes thru with this job I hope he updates us with some pics of the results.

[RobertTheFat]

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@BurnUnit wrote:

For that matter, I suppose it could be an outdoor, daytime event. If the OP goes thru with this job I hope he updates us with some pics of the results.

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Daytime events aren't necessarily easier. If the sun is in the wrong direction, you'll likely need fill flash, which can be a problem if you can't get get in close. And there's no such thing as bounce flash outdoors (although I once saw a photographer, who felt entitled enough to keep barging into my FoV, try to use it at a 4th of July parade). 

[ebiggs1]

Robert said, "Daytime events aren't necessarily easier."

I would take outdoor every time over indoor.