Fast-changing stage lighting, LED walls, dark audiences and moving speakers are a miserable combination if you trust one camera setting. Here is the corporate event photography setup I actually start from.

At a beach wedding the wind can destroy a beautiful recording while the camera picture looks perfectly fine. Here's how I plan microphones, backup recorders and monitoring before the vows.

A travel kit is not about carrying everything. It is about protecting the things you cannot replace when the event is hours from home and there is no easy second chance.

Backups are boring right up until a card fails. This is the simple event-photo backup logic I want in place before I leave a venue with someone else's once-in-a-lifetime images.

Bounce flash is beautiful when the room cooperates. Sometimes the ceiling is black, twenty feet high, or simply useless. That is when direct flash stops being a compromise and becomes the right tool.

Prime lenses can give you beautiful results. Fast zooms can keep you from missing things. At an event, the better lens is often the one that gets out of your way.

Bounce flash is one of the easiest ways to get clean event light. Then you walk into a room with a black ceiling, twenty foot walls and nowhere useful to send the flash.