Indoor ISO settings

[Robin Usagani]

Well Gav.. you are being too technical. Yeah sure you can lower the shutter speed to get the ambient light. I can only assume the shutter is not too slow for hand held (or room is not pitch dark. Or too fast), the op will not stop down the aperture much, and the room is kinda dark (or else he wont have posted this).

 

[Gavjenks]

Well Gav.. you are being too technical. Yeah sure you can lower the shutter speed to get the ambient light.

Erm, compensating flash correctly so as not to have your photos look like absolute crap is "too technical?"
Maintaining the same desired balance of ambient and flash is something you should absolutely be paying attention to and trying to do every single time... and if you're using TTL it even does all of that automatically.

If it's too dark and you're getting blurry shots, then sure, open the aperture or increase the ISO by all means. What I'm saying though is then you need to turn down the flash too to maintain the same ratio. Forgetting to do that is just a flat out mistake and you're going to butcher your image! It's not an overly technical nitpick...



The link you posted seems like a clear example of a failure to pay attention as described above. Somebody NOT bothering to adjust the parameters to maintain the right ratio, and simply fumbling the exposure by cranking up ISO or aperture without turning down the flash in response, and as you said, it looks like ****.

 

[Robin Usagani]

The sample I posted was shot in film. He should have used higher ISO film or if he didnt have one, he should have pushed it.

Well.. of course you have to lower the flash power. Anyway, all I was saying is that sometimes when you respond you need to just assume the OP kinda know what is going on already. If the OP has no clue about photography, your explanation did not mean anything anyway.

The OP shot with high ISO before and had no flash. My assumption was the OP will be shooting at the same settings but different ISO (one without flash, one with flash). I can only assume the OP had the shutter as low as possible but not faster than sync speed. I mean.. you did your explanation all the way to shooting outside with flash and explain about flash sync speed which is another subject IMO.

 

[glun]

I'd use at least 800 ISO. If you do ISO 100 you will not drain your battery pack real quick but the light will look awkward as well.

 

[table1349]

Well Gav.. you are being too technical. Yeah sure you can lower the shutter speed to get the ambient light. I can only assume the shutter is not too slow for hand held (or room is not pitch dark. Or too fast), the op will not stop down the aperture much, and the room is kinda dark (or else he wont have posted this).

And that it new HOW????:mrgreen: