Canon 5D, The King of Making Pictures From Nothing
I shot a wedding last weekend. The groom was a Marine. A lot of his friends showed up in full Marine regalia too. With the evening winding down, the Marines all got together in a huddle and started singing… Marine songs I suppose. I saw a photo opportunity and stuck my camera in between the guys legs and shot blind.
The lighting was already horrible. I was maxing out everything, at f/1.4, ISO 1600 and underexposing by 1EV to get the shutter speeds I wanted without resorting to a flash. The resulting picture I got is below. I initially thought the picture was a loss. There was almost no detail to work with except the in the ceiling - which is worthless.
I wanted to see if I could salvage something. I pushed the RAW image +3EV (equalivent to ISO 12800!) and converted to black and white to kill most of the chromatic noise. And now I have a picture, woot! It’s noisy as hell. Details are pretty much shot, but the mood and spontaneity is all there, eh?
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Doesn’t it make such a huge difference! I need to learn more about shooting in RAW format - I’ve been shooting in Large just because it gives me way more space to shoot photos.
BTW - read your entry below. That’s flattering what you said but hey, you’re very good too and if anything - I hope the fact that now you know people do enjoy your work, that it’ll motivate you to blog MORE photos!
Keep posting!
wait aminute - you stuck what in between some marine’s legs?! is “camera” your pet name for *insert the obvious*.
*bites lip*
i knew you were naughty.. but on the job! mmmmm
how about increase black level, so less noise in the black area..
hey jay.. i found something here in the gutter. looks like its your mind. did u want it back? :p