Photos indoors at night time

Darth Henry

apologies if this has been posted before.

i took a few pictures of indoor soccer matches recently with the flash on and they all came out very dark.

any tips for me for the next time?

FinoBlad

juicy film or digital?

norma

The most likely cause is that your subjects were beyond the range of your flash unit for the film speed you used. Your manual should have info in it about that.
Another possibility is that your aperture was too small.
Or maybe you didn't allow your flash to recycle fully between exposures. If this were the case, some would probably be exposed properly.

Norma.

innisfree

I'm guessing your camera was automatic.
You have to understand how a camera measures light to guage what exposure etc. to use.
Simplified, it takes everything it can see and averages the brightness to a single value. In snow for example, there'd be a lot of near white so the brightness average would be very bright.
The camera now thinks it's a very bright image in front of it and will take a very short exposure to compensate. This is often why snow pictures come out bad.
Your picture was also underexposed, so for some reason the camera believed there was a lot of bright values, or strong lights in front of it. The Flash would have messed with this also.
If your automatic has enough settings to be able to set what the light meter reads, then point the camera at somewhere more suitable to take a reading (such as out of the way of bright spotlights).

If your camera is manual and you set it yourself then ignore the above