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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 596480" data-attributes="member: 13196"><p>During my church's Christmas Eve service, I will be taking non-flash photos. One thing I'd like to do is to capture a couple of close up images with someone holding a lit candle close to their face. Since I've never done this and really won't have a chance to try it out ahead of time, does anyone have experience with this? Looking for setting info and also how to meter. There won't be a lot of time to do this as they will want to lock up the church so families can get kids to bed. I know high ISO and tripod will be required, but the candle's light is going to influence the meter--thus the need to underexpose. Just wondering how to capture their faces without losing too much detail and hope I won't have to raise the shadows too much. And I imagine the light will be blown, yes?</p></blockquote><p></p>