Low Lighting shooting help

[Busted Knuckles]

Try this to experience the difference between flash duration and shutter speed. Step the shutter speed up from 15th to 200th while panning in your darkened living room.

The the flash duration is very, very short, so unless there is a lot of relative ambient you won't see much blur (adjust the f stop & iso accordingly to balance between ambient & flash). Brighten the room bit by bit and you will see the "trails" of the image after the flash with 1st curtain sync - change to 2nd curtain sync and you will see "leads" to the image.

There are soooooooo many cool things you can do w/ a flash - I don't know if the 430 has multi-setting - (where the flash fires several times during the single exposure) that could be really interesting at a concert with a long shutter setting.

Again, play, play, practice, fiddle. And welcome to the cool world of photo

1/3 is pretty acceptable to me. It's incredibly bright as it is, so if that takes the edge of it it could work well