On Feb 7, 2010, at 10:19 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
>
>
> Based on what Paul said today and previously,
> it looks like there might be a sample-to-sample variation.
> I have my K-7 set to +0.7 - +1.0 for most of the indoor shots.
> This is when the metering is set to center-weighted ("green") setting.
>
I never use center-weighted. I use the multi segment almost all the time. It's
much more accurate on average. For tricky situations, I use spot metering.
Paul
> Igor
>
> paul stenquist pnstenquist at comcast.net
> Sun Feb 7 15:58:45 CST 2010
>
>
> It's okay to expose to keep the shadows from going completely dark, but
> you usually shouldn't need plus 1 or 2. I rarely have to use plus EV with
> the K7. When I do, it's usually +.3. or sometimes +.7 when the most
> important part of the shot is in shadow. If you expose accurately at ISO
> 400, you won't get a lot of noise. The fur protesters pic I posted
> yesterday is ISO 400 in program mode with no exposure compensation. The
> doorway is pure black but there's no noise:
> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10637125&size=lg
> This pic is ISO 1250. I was in program mode, which picks f4 with the DA*
> 50-135. I went with +.7 EV because her face was shaded, and I pulled back
> the highlights in conversion and burned in the hot white papers on the
> table after converting:
> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10637141&size=lg
> This shot is ISO 6400, shot at the meter reading in aperture priority
> mode. There's noise in the deep shadows but the main subject is relatively
> noise free, and he was exposed correctly. No post work to speak of on this
> one, other than a slight application of PhotoShop noise reduction:
> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10541951&size=lg
>
> Paul
>
> On Feb 7, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Tanya Love wrote:
>
>> Would this work? After my initial shoot yesterday with my K-7, I have
> been really surprised about the noise in the shots. My brief required me
> to shoot the interior in only available light (although I did cheat and
> use a little bit of flash bounced into some of the shadows some time), and
> there is A LOT of noise in the dark (shadow) areas of the images. (I will
> post them later but can.t log into my ftp server right now for some
> reason, and I am sitting here on hold to the hosting company as I type
> this!).
>
>> So, my question is this . if I am shooting in RAW, it means that the HDR
> function does not work. Noise wasn.t a problem like this with the *istD,
> so I.ve never really thought about this in depth, but if I were to
> deliberately overexpose by one or even 2 stops (but not too much to
> completely blow out the highlights), and allow more light into the shadow
> areas, would this eliminate much of the noise in the darker portions of
> the pictures? Because I am shooting in RAW, it shouldn.t be that hard to
> adjust the curves/levels in the RAW converter to compensate so that is no
> problem, but NOISY pictures (especially for print magazines), certainly
> IS!
>>
>> TIA!
>>
>> Tan. .
>
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