anyone taken portraits at cabot circus with the rain-deers at night?

[p1tse]

was down there the other evening with wife and baby

thought would try and take some pics while we were down there in the evening, but i found it very hard to get the right setting.

tried with no flash, but wife and baby came out too dark

so i flicked it to auto for ease with flash and flash brightness just took out the faces

so i flicked it onto the night mode with lights, but again still had issues with flash too strong

so flicked it onto P and manually adjusted the brightness of flash and exposure compensation, but still it was either too dark or way too bright on the faces

anyone elsed taken any portraits down there in the evening?

 

[p1tse]

p.s. this was standing at the rain deer near the bottom escalators

 

[markw08]

Try upping the ISO on your camera...

Took some photos at a disco a while back and with Tdodd`s explaination used the settings 1/60 F8 Iso 1600.

The F8 is the aperture for the flash exposure and the ISO 1600 increases the background brightness with 1/60th shutter.

The photos came out great....

Oops this is using flash ...