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.

The cake, balloons and decorations matter. But if the gallery is mostly tables and centerpieces, the most important part of the party probably got ignored.

A branded backdrop and a few handshake photos are part of corporate event coverage. They are not the whole job. The real story is people, purpose, scale, details and what the company actually did in the room.