G3 underexposed indoor photos

[tc_guy]

I'm a newcomer to both the forum and to digital. I recently bought a G3 and a CP-200 photo printer (plus other accessories) on Ebay. I only received them a week ago, leaving very little time to experiment before the Thanksgiving holiday. I was hoping to take some photos and be able to print them and give them away while visiting family... a large and noisy bunch!

Anyway, to make a long story short... the flash was having a problem with redeye even with reduction on, so I turned off the flash and got a dual head halogen worklight stand to light up the room. Then I positioned my victims... err... subjects for some family photos. There seemed to be plenty of light... but the photos turned out with a severe brown undertone. In fact, any of the photos I took without the flash were way way way underexposed, at least when printed on the CP-200 (a nifty little device).

I've searched the forum, but haven't found anything that clues me in. I shot in several different modes, including full auto but if the flash didn't fire, the picture is too flipping dark and washed out.

Any ideas?

And how the heck do I post a sample photo if you want to see it?

Many thanks and wishing you a happy holiday season,

Ron

[tc_guy]

And no, I didn't have the sepia exposure on... in fact, I had the vivid color exposure on.

Ron

[Andy_T]

Hi Ron,

did you shoot RAW???

If YES, help is near.

With BreezeBrowser, you can correct this

http://www.breezesys.com/BreezeBrowser/help/standrews_uncorrected.jpg

to look like this

http://www.breezesys.com/BreezeBrowser/help/standrews_corrected.jpg

If you didn't shoot RAW so far ... then you now know why you should in the future...

Regards,
Andy

[tc_guy]

I'm learning...