party portraits

I went to a friend's 8th birthday party over the weekend.  When I got back I threw a handful of photos up on Facebook in an album entitled Brady's b'day party.  It might have appeared more suitable were it called First Funeral.  Look at a few of them:

Don't they all look so sad? But... I like them anyway. They kindof make me wonder about what's causing each expression... atypical birthday shots, though.

These were shot with the Nikon d300s in a high ceilinged school entrance. I used a Nikkor 18-200 3.5-5.6 and a Nissin Di622 speedlight. Post-processing varied but was done in Photoshop CS3.