We were at my niece and nephew's birthday party and I was able to capture my daughter with my niece as they were singing happy birthday.
I love trying to capture a low light picture with the candles glow on the kids faces. I learned that it is an extremely hard picture to capture. It is low light and of course the kids are singing and moving, so you can't have a long shutter speed or everything will be blurry, but too short of a shutter speed and you get nothing but a candle flame and no faces.
Most of the time your camera will pop up the flash and it will blow out the picture including that nice warm candle light. You will be able to see all of the faces and usually it will be a sharp focus, but just my opinion I think you lose the mood with that. I am definitely not saying that using a flash for taking pictures like this is bad, just my 2 cents.
I hope that you will try to capture a low light birthday cake sometime. It is definitely harder than I thought, but worth the effort. I am going to keep working on those low light pictures to see if I can get better pictures without using the flash.
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