I had an opportunity to take some indoor photographs of my wife’s dog training classes. I have rarely taken images indoors, so it was a good learning opportunity. In keeping with the vision I have had to post pictures to learn from, here are my efforts, and why they did not work.
None of the images in this post have been edited.
This was the first image:
f/8/ 1/25 sec, ISO 100 Aperture priority, -0.7 EC at 16 mm
The orange glow is because I had not set the white balance to incandescent. I could possibly have used a wider aperture to let in more light . I tend to shoot under exposed and brighten up in post editing.
f/9 , 1/50 sec ISO 320, EC 0, manual mode at 50 mm
This is one with the white balance appropriate for an indoor shot. The lighting is still not an accurate portrayal of the actual room lighting. I have increased the ISO to have a brighter image, but I made a mistake with the aperture, should not have been as high.
f/6.3, 1/200se, ISO 800, EC 0, manual mode at 50mm
Here is the last shot of the day. I have increased the ISO to 800 and the image is lighter. I could probably have set the aperture at its widest.
All in all it was a disappointing shoot, but luckily I will have other opportunities to take images in this location again. The main takeaways are to set the aperture at its widest, bump up the ISO to at least 800, set the Exposure Compensation to 0, or even experiment with +1. Shutter speed is tricky when I am trying to shoot dogs in movement, as it requires a faster shutter speed letting in less light.
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