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iPhone pic from Madison tonight.
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My shot of the night.
(Downtown Manhattan for the 9/11 Memorial for those of you that don't know)
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Nice shot, Crisp. Where were you standing?
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damn thems some bright lights
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American Pika poses for me at 14,000-ft above sea level on Mount Evans, Colorado. 700mm, hand held:
American pika poses by dcstep, on Flickr Dave
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At 700mm and hand-held, plus that quality.... I would definitely trust you as a surgeon! Great shot.
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Well, my hands are indeed pretty steady, BUT image stabilization, ISO 800, f/5.6 and 1/4000th second helped a bunch. I used +1EV to bring out the fur details. The light at 14,000 feet above sea level gives you all kinds of options. My 7D has excellent IQ at ISO 800. I knew that the shutter speed was up at 1/2000th or higher, but I didn't realize it was 1/4000th until later. Two fundamental things that I do are, "expose right" to the right of the histogram and don't be afraid of pumping the ISO so that you CAN expose right and still get adequate shutter speeds. Dave
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there's a tremendous difference in ISO performance between the XSi and 5Dii. i'd never hesitate to take my 5Dii to 1600 in almost any circumstance.
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^ I totally agree which is why I didn't mind the price tag
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you're right, the XSI will struggle at 800ISO, however, if you printed an image at that ISO at a normal size, it wouldn't really be noticeable. Computer monitors like to show noise, and it doesn't help that we view the picture 15x bigger on a monitor then we would on a 4x6 sheet.
if you expose to the right like DC says, it tends to make the camera not work as hard and eliminates a bit of the noise. There are also bucket loads more colours in brighter pictures then dark pictures, so there's more room for error in post processing, so if i picture appears to be over exposed, you'd be surprised how perfect the picture can come out after. so try the 800ISO out a couple more times, but exposer a little bit higher then you normally would, just don't blow out the whites, then you'll never recover colours. the best thing you can do is turn on "highlight alert" and if it isn't flashing, but things still seem bright, you've got a safe exposure. you have to depend on post processing more when doing this trick, but many people feel it is worth it. I do it depending on the circumstances of my shooting locations, and i know DC does it on a daily basis. M6 has been discovering the power of doing this and has been getting great detail with his images. It's a neat way to sort of side step the shortcomings of high ISO. Mind you, i do shoot with both the 7D and 5DmkII which both handle ISO fairly well, but what i've learned with them can apply all across the range. |
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I agree 100% but the 7D still handles it's ISO very well compared to a lot of models, and that's why i didn't say it handles ISO as well as the 5DII The 5DII can handle about 2x as much ISO as the 7D which is a lot.
but compared to the XSI the 7D is light years ahead for ISO handling still. |
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With both at ISO 1600, I start seeing the difference between my 5D2 and 7D, but I'll still shoot the 7D there in a pinch to get the 7D's superior detail resolution. Above 1600 the 5D2 really opens up a growing gap and the 7D gets very shaky because the quality of its noise can get very nasty and mosaic-like. I'll shoot the 5D2 at predawn at ISO 6400 to get useable shots. We should all remember, our non-photographer viewers couldn't give a big rats ass about noise. If the subject is good and interesting and the detail is good, then they'll pretty well ignore noise in the non-subject area of an image. Pixel-peeping at 100% and above is useful, but don't get too caught up in amplified noise that's not really going to show except in the largest prints. Expose Right. Dave
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Another thing to remember is, it's OK to blow out a small highlight, so long as its not important. So, the goal is not to totally eliminate highlight alert blinkies, but keep them out of places that really matter in your shot. For instance, the wing of a white bird should not be blinking at you. OTOH, if only the very tips of the wings are blinking, then you're probably ok and you'll see great feather detail in the whole of the bird. These rules hold for all digital cameras, cheap to expensive, but to take full advantage of them you'll need to shoot in RAW. The out-of-camera jpegs will look washed out. Dave
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To maximize DR with digital, you Expose Right (to the right of the histogram). The only thing that I consider overexposed is a blown out highlight. It's not only hard to bring any detail back, but you cannot recover ANY detail from a blown out highlight. However, anything that's not blown out has more color and detail in the RAW file than anything that's underexposed. My histogram is generally right up against the right side and I get great details and little noise. I DO pull levels down in RAW conversion, but the details and colors are all there in the file. My default setting is +1/3EV, which isn't much, but then if the subject is brown or black I'll go up to +1EV in good light and maybe even +2EV in low light. If the subject is white or light, then I start going to -EV. The American Pika a few windows up was at +1EV in bright, bright, mountain-top light. Shooting to the right will change your whole view and approach to digital photography. Dave
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sounds more like you're shooting low or negative EV because you're having to compensate for using too much lighting on your subjects. or you just like dark backgrounds.
test a couple shots at like 1/3rd and 2/3rds positive, then bring back the levels in your post processing, you might get more popping color. If not, no hard one. |
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