Can anyone give me any advice on taking Photo's in dark setting's i.e Disco's etc?

[Beverley]

Hello Everyone,

How are you all?

I am really struggling with taking photo's in dark setting's? :(

I recently went on Holiday with my children.

And on 3 evening's at the Disco? Every photo I seemed to take the Photo's seemed blurry or had a shadowing effect?

I tried taking pic's on different setting's? But I just couldn't get it quite right :( I gave up and just used my digital Canon on the evening's at the disco.

I have up-loaded a few pic's in the hope that someone will be able to help me.

I am also finding the same happen when I'm outside at night taking photo's?

Hope you can help?

Thank You

Beverley

[Beverley]

Here's another Photo

[Jessica]

It sounds like it's a matter of what f-stop your lens is at, and what your iso settings are. I try to almost always use a low f-stop, and the darker it is the higher your iso will need to be.

[Paula]

The canon has a 50mm lens (f1.8) that shoots extremely well in low light and is only $139

[Alex]

try 50mm lens but find f/1.4 is expensive but better. iso about 400 and shutter speed 40-50 of a second

[Crazy Girl]

the slower your shutter speed the more movement its going to show hence the blurry pictures. use a wider aperture and raise your iso that should do the trick. I have the lens Alex is talking about and I love it.

[Siobhan Leyne]

push your ISO up, the higher it is, the grainier the photo, but you can get low light shots without the flash. my below is:

ISO 1600 (WAY too high normally and you can see the grain in it, but it was very dark)
f5.6
no flash

[Beverley]

Thank you for all your comments you have been very helpful x

I have the Canon 50mm Lens! I will try using that in dark setting's! And using a higher ISO!

Thanks again x

[Andy McAvoy]

It appears to me to be shutter speed rather than iso of aperture. In both these shots you've used flash, but you shutter speed is 1/5th and 1/4 of a second respectively. The blurring you see is due to that. Set your shutter speed to 1/60 or a little higher when using flash and you wont get the problem.