I am trying to take some indoor night flash photograph.

If let say I turn to FLASH OFF mode, the ISO is 3200. If I use AUTO mode with same aperture & shutter speed , the flash will pop up and select ISO 800 (cooler colour with less noise).

On the other hand, if I use M Mode with same aperture & shutter speed, and on the flash, the ISO will not be reduced to ISO 800 and it keeps as ISO 3200.

My experiment:
1) I switched off the ISO sensitivity and select ISO 800, it provides the same effect as the AUTO mode

2) ISO sensitivity is turned back on, I used the expossure compensation -2 EV (the flash exposure compensation will follow as -2 EV) to achieve ISO 800 . The photo results is extremely warm (very orrangy and ugly)

Has anyone of you experienced the same thing? It gives me the conclusion that if you are using ISO sensitivity ON for low light portrait, AUTO mode will give a better result than M mode. Can any sifu advise? This is just my findings and very likely to be wrong!

You spot it! I believe is due to WB also (though I selected AUTO WB for all), since the built-in flash is cool colour, it is not possible that the flash itself causing the colour to be warm!

Even I took photos at the beach under sunlight, if I turn on the flash, I noticed the colour will be slightly warmer but not as terrible as the test I mentioned above!

Since I am beginner here, using M mode playing with the shutter speed and aperture already keep me busy! It will be abit challenging for me to change the WB and selecting the correct ISO for every shot I take(turning off the ISO sensitivity)

I feel that I am poissed by Tokina 35mm f/2.8 macro! Anyone has tried playing with this lens on their Nikon camera?

Recently got my Tokina AT-X 35mm. It is super sharp!

I think it is because it is macro lens!

Testing

First time sharing photos taken, am I sharing it correctly?

This post has been edited by tatagal: Jan 4 2012, 09:26 PM