SB-600 Tests : Indoors

I figured the first attempt that I would make at this would be to shoot indoors with a fairly low amount of natural light.  Being home alone with Bailey I figured he would be a great subject for the tests.  Judging by the fact that he turned his back on me after the first flash, I got the impression that he wasn’t as into it as I was.

I took a series of shots with my camera in Aperture Priority and in Shutter Priority but since there was such a small amount of natural light in the room, I had to go to shutter speeds less than 1/10 in order for the aperture to move from f/2.8 so I stuck with Aperture Priority as my shooting mode.

Below are the series of shots that I captured labeled with the exposure information listed on each.  Some things to know about these shots:

• The maximum shutter speed that I could in this mode was 1/60 because that is the limit of my D90
• These are the RAW files right out of the camera and they have not been edited. Just re-sized.
• Nikon SB-600 was aimed to the ceiling
• Nikon SB-600 was fitted with a Stofen Diffuser

You can easily see the effect of opening the aperture here while leaving everything else alone.  Personally, I like the shots at f/5.6 and f/9 the best.  In this type of setting, I will stay within that range of apertures in the future.

What do you think?