Love this shot, very depressing or sad in a way, Reminds me of some suburban tale of teen angst. Anyway I like it a lot, the lighting is especially good i think. Thanks for your comment on my work. Tim
Thanks for you advice ray, I did use a tripod. This was an experiment that I did in a friends bathroom with a few candles and a desk lamp, It came out very saturated and yellow. Thank you so much for the advice, I have been trying to work out good ways of capturing low light shots. one thing I found was that it is really hard to focus when there is little light available, so I too was surprised at the sharpness of the image. I'm only 17 and have been doing photography for 3 years so I don't know that much and all your advice and help is greatly appreciated. I shot like I was using a faster film speed (I set the camera and compensated the difference).
Kat, I'm suprized that the image is so sharp with a five second exposure, did you use a tripod. For low light shots, espacally hand held, you shoud use fast film, ISO 1600 and faster, wide apeture lens, f1.8, f2.0 etc. which usually means you have to switch to prime (i.e. single focal length) lens since very few zoom lens are faster than about f4 or so (unless you want to spend very large amounts of money for very fast zooms.). If you have 50mm f1.8 lens for your cannon, try that and get some fast film, you will not have much depth of field however, do be aware of that fact and focus carefully. If you don't have that lens you might look around for a used one, there are lots around and they are fairly cheap nowadays. The other thing you can do, besides using a tripod, is to try to add additional light when ever possible, I'm not talking about on-camera flash (one of the worst light sources possible) but by increasing the the size of light bulbs, using reflectors, opening shades, Light colored walls etc. Indoor available light photography can be very rewarding and at times you have to experiment to see what results you get under different conditions. Don't give up and keep trying and I'm sure you'l get some shots which will make the effort worth while. One more thought, practice holding the camera as still as possible when shooting, just being conscious of this will help quite a bit.
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