Settings for Indoor Photography

Settings for Indoor Photography

• Put you camera onto M for manual (this is the setting on Canon’s, not sure about other models).
• Set you aperture to as big as it will go eg. F4.0 or F2.8.
• Set your shutter speed to around 1/60. It is hard to shoot handheld with anything below 1/60. As a rule of thumb you should never shoot lower than your focal distance while handheld. Eg on a 50mm lense you should never shoot lower than 1/50 sec.
• You will then need to use you external flash, if you can bounce your flash do this, if you have a catch light reflector built into your flash even better.
• Take a few shots and see what they look like.
• If they are not bright enough try bumping up your ISO to 200 then 400 and so on until you achieve an acceptable result.