Pink Hippo

Here is an exercise; Put your camera in aperture priority mode, set the aperture to the lowest possible number. Remember, this will let the most light in, since it is opening wider. Now find a room in your house that is dimly lit, one that you would ordinarily use a flash in. Raise up your ISO and take the picture. Are you able to get the shot?
Your assignment this week is to take two photos, one in Automatic mode, and the other either changing the aperture, changing the shutter speed or changing the ISO to make the photo different, better, then the one taken in Auto.

Me and pink hippo went into the back playroom which is a dimly lit room.  I took a bunch of pictures on all sorts of different settings.  I am going to go through and look and choose the best lighting.  Then I will look to see what settings they were taken at. 
Drumroll......



This was the best of the zoomed in.  Still seems too dark.  Setting are:
f5/6
Shutter 1/60
ISO 3200
55mm
*Only thing I changed was ISO to the very highest.



f/5.6
Shutter 1/8
ISO- 800
18mm
*I changed ISO and shutter speed.
 

1- At least the best ones were not Auto ones.  That would have been frustrating.  So working in manual can and will produce better images than auto.

2-  I still don't understand ISO. The whole purpose of this was to play with ISO.  I could not see a difference in any of the pictures based purely on ISO.

3-What NOT to do:

f/36
Shutter 1/60
ISO 100
 

f/36
Shutter 1
ISO 6400

f/36
Shutter 1/60
ISO 6400

f/5.6
Shutter 1/125
ISO 6400

f/5.6
Shutter 1/125
ISO 800

Finally, the first picture is on auto.  The second is manual (same picture as above) In comparing these they look a lot the same, but I think the manual one is better because it is lighter. 
(auto is set to f/3.5, 1/60 and 3200)
(manual is f5.6, 1/8, 800)