Thanks all! It was actually early evening. With buildings and fences on 4 sides and trees creating a hole filled shade with bright highlights. Also with about 100 people seated or milling about. Very difficult to meter and even fill flash could not compensate for differences. My metering was mostly f4 or f5.6 at 1/60 of a second ISO 400. So a very narrow latitude to play in. I would have liked both more depth of field and shutter speed but I find ISO 800 to be too noisy on my camera.