Problems in a darkish room..

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Sorry if this is in the wrong place but I had an issue today.

I had a bride that wanted photo's taken in the boudoir before she got married (I wasnt paid to be the photographer I just volunteered to take a few snaps)
and although the pics came out okay, they aren't great because the lighting was poor in the room, the flash kept popping up even though I didnt feel it was totally necessary and I didnt want to use it.

Occasionally it just wouldn't take a picture when the button was pressed down, til I changed the settings. I think AV worked best, I didnt use any auto settings cos I wanted to figure it out for myself.

So, when shooting in a room with limited light, how do you get the most out of it? What settings do you use which prevent the need for flash? Still getting used to the appeture etc, so please be gentle! lol

I'm still a n00b and need you to talk me through it.

I have a canon 700d

Thanks :bonk:
 
Hi A good starting point is to use manuel to stop the flash coming on. Lowest apature to give you the depth of field you want. And a tripod.
 
When I started (I'm still starting) I was frustrated with the canon flash popping up when I didn't want it. You can stop this happening in some of the settings.

My first bit of advise would be to use the flash if you need to. I quite like using my flash indoors if I need it (but I do not use the internal one instead using a 430exii).

What lens were you using? I have a prime 50mm lens which allow a lot more light in when using it at 1.4 f stop rather than my 24-105 which only allows in 4 f's of light. So using a cheap prime will help. However the downside to this is the background will be blurry, which is generally a good thing, but most folk would not like having one of the happy in focus and the other blurry if you are taking photo's at a wedding.

Another thing you can do is let more light hit the sensor by using a longer shutter speed. However this is no good for moving things as they will just come out blurry. You can use a tripod, but people tend to move.

Finally as others have said, you can boost up the iso. People on here will claim high iso is horrible. But I have found that unless you are printing big, it's not too bad. However I'm not a pro and only do it for fun, so I get away with crap photos.

My best tip, at least for me. Is to use live view!!! It's amazing, and allows you to see how your image will come out before pressing the shutter. When you are getting into using manual controls this is really really really useful.
 
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vetonbike said:
Hi A good starting point is to use manuel to stop the flash coming on. Lowest apature to give you the depth of field you want. And a tripod.
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Although this is good advice in general I would advise against using a tripod in this situation as you'll get movement in the image - even if ti's just her mouth if she's talking.

Opening the aperture as far as you can (the lowest number) and raising the ISO until you get a good shutter speed would be your easiest answer if you don't want to use flash - also when you do shoot at higher ISOs converting to black and white can help if you don't like the noise :)
 
If you don't want the flash to come on, you should be able to manually disable it.
 
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