The Alphabet of Photoblogging is an A-Z 26 day long series about what to look for when doing nightlife photography and what to do to get your photo taken. For the rest of the alphabet and more info click here.

If the party you are shooting has a sponsor you need to get lovely shots of people with that product.  People drinking delicious Dewars, people partying next to a Motorola banner or people rocking whatever free giveaway some sponsor wants hipsters to have.  Doing this is sort of bullshit, I mean, I don’t really instinctively think of photography on those terms.  The thing is, when you get those good product shots, you get hired back, and you get better paying gigs.  It is the difference between getting $50 from a DJ to shoot his party to getting $750 from Absolut to shoot their exclusive event.  Plus there is an art to making products look amazing.  Try to think of it that way and maybe you won’t feel like the sell out you are.

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