Photography in Low light

[robbie_vlad]

If you are going to be 20ft+ away from them then you will have no problem with using the largest aperture you can without having someone out of focus.

 

[fokker]

Getting the house in the background in focus too will be a problem though.

 

[white]

You are using a small focal length lens (i.e., 50mm) and focusing 20 feet away -- you don't have to worry about f-stops in this scenario. You're going to get depth of field whether you want it or not. For shooting kids under streetlights, try f/4 @ 1/60 @ 50mm. If you go wider than that, like 28 mm, then you should be able to get away with 1/30.

 

[Village Idiot]

Ultra Wide Angle lenses. You can shoot wide open with them and still have a pretty deep DOF.

Shooting at 10mm @ f/4 shouldn't be much of a problem at all.

There's always the option to do a composite image since you're shooting on a tripod. You can take one exposed snap of the people, then set to expose for the house and then put them together in post.

 

[arnab_n]

Thanks everyone for the Help!!