In low light situations you have a few choices.
1) Change your ISO - ISO is the sensitivity of your image sensor. Basically, by choosing a higher ISO (400, let's say), you can use a faster flash at the cost of having an image with more noise.
2) Use a tripod - a tripod let's you use a slower shutter speed with less blurring - of course, I forgot mine.
3) Use a flash. Generally speaking, the flash attached to the camera is overbright, direct, and ruins any other lighting effects that you were going for in your pictures. You can compensate for the flash's brightness with your light compensation meter, or in photoshop. However, you cannot change the direct lighting effect.
4) Post editing. I prefer to adjust the "brightness" "contrast" and "highlights & shadows" in photoshop as opposed to the overall "levels" because it preserves the true colors of the image (and generally just looks better)
For these photographs, I used a combination of these techniques, mostly experimenting to see what compromises I'm willing to make in order to shoot in low light.
SO I wouldn't say these are by any means my best, but they are beautifully artistic in their own way. Plus the models were of course, AMAZING! :)
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