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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
How to take pictures indoors without making it look so dark...
I was a book signing at a local bookstore last night, and I attempted to take pictures with a flash, and the photos were SO dark. When I took the flash off, I the pictures were much lighter but blurry (since the speaker was moving, etc.)
How can I take indoor pictures without making the picture look so dark?
Re: How to take pictures indoors without making it look so dark...
Sort of.
The ISO is the film's (or, with digital cameras, the sensor's) sensitivity to light; in the past it was called "film speed." The higher the ISO, the more sensitive to light it will be and the less light you need to properly expose a picture (although you see more grain, typically). The shutter speed isn't at all affected by the ISO; that's what the "shutter speed" setting is. It's typically a measure of time in fractions of a second. So the poster above was confusing two different things. Since you weren't firing your flash, your camera compensated by keeping the shutter open longer, which is why you got a blurry photo.
The third component of a well-exposed photo is the aperture - the size of the shutter's opening. The larger it is, the more light that gets in, thus improving your exposure (with a trade off of making your depth of field more shallow). A thoughtful combination of aperture, ISO and shutter speed creates different effects and results, so experimentation is good.
All this is moot if your camera doesn't allow manual settings. But it's good stuff to know.
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