Due to bad weather, work and final exams, I didn't get to do much shooting this week. Instead, I shot at my auntie's 60th birthday party.

Banquet halls can be hard conditions to shoot at. I used ISO 1600 (which ofcourse left those grainy details..yuck). Binks tells me that with LightHouse, I can turn up the noise reduction, bring the picture to Photoshop and sharpen it.

Since I was using my EF 18-55 (my baby lens, as I like to call it), I couldn't decrease the F-Stop lower than 5.6. I also used my flash as well.

So it really depended on what I wanted to capture. If I wanted to focus on one area, I shot at 250 (leaving the background black). If I wanted to capture the entire scene, I shot at 60 (but no lower than that). However, @ F60, it also yielded a yellow tint - I think that is the lowest I'll go. F100 seemed to be the best setting. The pic of my little nephew is taken at ISO 1600, F5.6, 100.