daveskates
Senior Member
So I just got my lens in today after work. Had ordered a Nikon 35mm 1.8 lens, I've been hearing people rave about it forever. Prior to owning a D3100 I had a D40 so a little bit of a jump since then. I been going out taking photos with the kit lens (18-55mm) lens and friends have been telling me they love the pics. I feel I've been improving messing with the manual settings. Before I couldn't shoot manual to save my life. So now with the 35mm I had a feeling It would be a bit of adjusting to. The setting I was in tonight was very low light, basically night time with some lights here and there at a lounge but it wasn't very well lit. I really try to prevent using the flash from keeping it in peoples faces for one. Second I noticed the color is a bit sharper and different when I didn't shoot with the top flash or the assist flash (if im using those terms correctly). What settings would any of you (more advance photographers than I) suggest me to try and bring out the 35mm at night? At some points the camera didn't even want to take the photo b/c there was so little light I'm assuming. Or will I have no choice and give in to the assist flash?