Dancing in the dark

It was 6pm plus and it was raining heavily outside. The sky was dark and there was no light in the hall.

We were told that the light will automatically be turned on at 7pm (unfortunately there was no light sensor installed at the hall to detect the ambient condition). Sometimes i think it is just stupid to base on the time to trigger the light if there is an event going on in that area.

The program at that time was to have all the kids dancing and jumping around. With such dark environment, it was quite impossible to shoot without any motion blur...


ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/20 sec
Aperture: f2.8
EV: -1.3
Flash: Yes

To minimize the motion blur (it did help a little bit), I stopped down the EV to -1.3, boosted the ISO to 1600, and with the aperture wide open. As a result, I managed to get a shutter speed of 1/20 sec. The photo would turn out underexposed (and lotsa noise) and I was hoping that the flash could at least brightened the photo.

Album: http://picasaweb.google.com/kcshashin/KidsShots14Aug2010