Retirement Party

I recently attended a retirement party at the Palm restaurant on 2nd Ave (NYC) and anyone who's been there knows how dark it is inside. It's a challenge trying to take photos without having to blast someone with the flash and ending up with the deer in the headlights look. Test shots with and without the flash revealed the nightmarish conditions under which I would be taking photos.

Here's where having the right equipment is so important! Knowing the Canon 5D Mark II camera is fantastic under low-light conditions, I'd set the ISO to automatic and spent the majority of the time shooting without the flash.

The most frequent comment heard was, "The flash didn't go off!"