Some more pics
I decided to stop being afraid of my flash and start learning to use it properly.
I've seen too many pics ruined by improper flash use and so up until now, I've pretty much tried to do without. It doesn't work so well! -Especially considering that our camera doesn't do so good in low light.
We get bad grain already at 200 ISO, and our f-stop doesn't go below 3.5 (and that's only when the lens is fully zoomed out, which, being that it's a wide angle lens, doesn't really help in most pics). Therefore, my f-stop is usually around 5ish and with an ISO at 100 it means that I have to put my shutter speed quite low. This is not very good when shooting kids as they tend to move a lot and it's terribly hard to get a clear shot.
Most pics that I've taken absolutely needed some post processing to either remove the nasty grain, lighten them up because I just couldn't use the shutter speed slow enough to get a properly lit shot, enhance the light fallling on the subject so the pic didn't look totally flat etc.
Ok, now that my excuses are out of the way, last night I decided to just try and use my flash and see what happens. Well, while these may not be the best of pics for various reasons, I was fairly pleased with the outcome and the fact that aside from a little sharpening and shrinking the pic to size, I didn't need to do anything in post! Hooray! :)
The light of the flash began to bother Tino and give him a headache, so I took myself off to another corner of the room where I tried desperately to get Alice to pose for me for longer than a fraction of a second. Unfortunatly, her patience ran out way too fast, so I wasn't able to get my settings completely right so this one did need a levels adjustment in post.
I've seen too many pics ruined by improper flash use and so up until now, I've pretty much tried to do without. It doesn't work so well! -Especially considering that our camera doesn't do so good in low light.
We get bad grain already at 200 ISO, and our f-stop doesn't go below 3.5 (and that's only when the lens is fully zoomed out, which, being that it's a wide angle lens, doesn't really help in most pics). Therefore, my f-stop is usually around 5ish and with an ISO at 100 it means that I have to put my shutter speed quite low. This is not very good when shooting kids as they tend to move a lot and it's terribly hard to get a clear shot.
Most pics that I've taken absolutely needed some post processing to either remove the nasty grain, lighten them up because I just couldn't use the shutter speed slow enough to get a properly lit shot, enhance the light fallling on the subject so the pic didn't look totally flat etc.
Ok, now that my excuses are out of the way, last night I decided to just try and use my flash and see what happens. Well, while these may not be the best of pics for various reasons, I was fairly pleased with the outcome and the fact that aside from a little sharpening and shrinking the pic to size, I didn't need to do anything in post! Hooray! :)
The light of the flash began to bother Tino and give him a headache, so I took myself off to another corner of the room where I tried desperately to get Alice to pose for me for longer than a fraction of a second. Unfortunatly, her patience ran out way too fast, so I wasn't able to get my settings completely right so this one did need a levels adjustment in post.
