Ok.. I've shot plenty of weddings at night and have never had a problem because there was always enough ambient light to work with. But last night, I shot a wedding outside in the pitch dark with only a few christmas lights in the trees. It was awful! And there was NO light to work with at all. The pictures came out very dark, blurry and/or the skin tones looked very red. I was shooting at an aperture of 3.5, my ISO was 1000 (of a possible 1600 with my camera) and the shutter was as slow as I could make it without even more blur. If I would have bumped up the shutter to bring in more light, everything would have been totally out of focus. I even has my flash on full force and nothing! At times I would get a few that would turn out ok with the flash, but it was just the subject lit up and everything else was black. Even when trying to use the little light I had to work with. So my question.. What am I doing wrong? Is it the lens? I have the Canon 24-105 L. Yes, not the best for dark situations. So it that it? If I would have been using a lens with a lower aperture, would that have made all the difference in the world? Being outside, there was nothing to bounce the flash off of. If it is simply I need a new lens for cases like this, would lens would you suggest? I hate primes because idealy I would like to zoom in and out when shooting a wedding. But if I have to go with that, then I will.
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