Amazing. Entire set is impressive given the light, but my favs are the second side shot of the guy with the sax and the "girl with the headphones" shots.
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > There was a live band at the weekly blues dance last night. For various > reasons I decided not to shoot with flash, but just go with available light. > The musicians would nod their heads fast enough that I kept having to boost > the ISO to get a fast enough shutter speed, and ended up shooting at ISO > 20,00. The thing that impresses me the most isn't the lack of noise, but the > quality of the noise. > > With my K20 the noise was mostly blue, which just looked bad. With the K-5 > even when the noise is really obvious, it looks almost like one of those > paintings that are done with making little dots. Stippling? Impressionistic? > > Mind you, for ISO 20,000, the noise is pretty freaking amazing. The thing > that I notice more than the noise in some shots is the dynamic range, when > there are bright lights in the background, posterization abounds. In some > cases I get this weird halo effect around the people, I suspect that it might > have something to do with the out of focus blur bringing the bright lights in > the background out of clipping and into color. > > pictures at: > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157626511238830/ > or: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157626511238830/ > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
