Em B-Day

My bud Emory just had his 35th birthday. Here are some of the jolly pics I took.

For you photography enthusiasts - The interior of Gulliver's isn't exactly great for low-light flash photography. The ceiling and walls are dark brown/wood, so you don't have a nice neutral surface for bouncing the flash. The ambient light is very dark, so you need to really crank up the ISO or drag the shutter to get that ambient lighting in there. I had the flash with the Lighsphere II diffuser pointed at either 45 degree forward or straight up, and a couple of times straight forward (the Lightsphere's too heavy and brings the flash head down. I need to replace that sucker with a newer version--they make one that's soft plastic now), and set to -1 or -2 FEC (flash exposure compensation). One thing I really hate about SLR's is that you really need to stop down very far in order to get an entire group in focus--something you don't need to worry about with compact point & shoot cameras (because they have such tiny sensors that you get vast depth of field by default).