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<blockquote data-quote="RocketCowboy" data-source="post: 669069" data-attributes="member: 25095">Indoor lighting is tough because you have complete control over the lighting. You have to decide if you want to use the ambient light at all, or just completely provide your own light. Outdoors, it's a bit harder to overpower the sun ... at least to the point where your light is the sole light source for the image (unless shooting at night).I haven't looked at the raw files you provided, but agree that overall it sounds like you're probably shooting at too high of an aperture and you need to stop down in order to achieve some Depth of Field. When using flash, the camera is going to meter for just the ambient light, so will usually try to push your lens as wide as it will go. You can control that, and still provide the right amount of artificial light to get the proper exposure. While using TTL flash can help speed things along, for the tests that you're using I would try using manual power settings so you can see the differences immediately.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RocketCowboy, post: 669069, member: 25095"] Indoor lighting is tough because you have complete control over the lighting. You have to decide if you want to use the ambient light at all, or just completely provide your own light. Outdoors, it's a bit harder to overpower the sun ... at least to the point where your light is the sole light source for the image (unless shooting at night). I haven't looked at the raw files you provided, but agree that overall it sounds like you're probably shooting at too high of an aperture and you need to stop down in order to achieve some Depth of Field. When using flash, the camera is going to meter for just the ambient light, so will usually try to push your lens as wide as it will go. You can control that, and still provide the right amount of artificial light to get the proper exposure. While using TTL flash can help speed things along, for the tests that you're using I would try using manual power settings so you can see the differences immediately. [/QUOTE]

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