A little bit of noise looks fine in that type of shpt IMHO. LR can save
some really dark photos, but I think several other shots of that person
were better photos. Yes I went thru the set and I thought you got lots
of good shots.
I'm not sure it was completely missed focus. The shiny mic with
distinctive pattern kind of jumps out. Maybe taking some brightness off
or softening the focus on the mic would balance out the photo and put
more emphasis on your subject. YMMV
[email protected] wrote:
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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 23:58:47 -0800
From: Larry Colen<[email protected]>
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]>
Subject: The K-5 continues to surprise me
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From my experience shooting in very low light, I don't tend to like to push
the ISO on the K-5 past 12,800. Sometimes I'll go as high as 16,000 when I
don't have any choice. Last night I was photographing a benefit concert for a
friend whose house had burned down, and when I wasn't using a flash, I mostly
had it set in TAv mode. I noticed this shot was a little bit noisy, then
noticed that the ISO was at 25,600:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/8366084507/ (1/100 f/4.5 25,600 77mm)
Meanwhile, my girlfriend selected this one as one of her favorites. It had
initially been processed by Lightroom auto-tone:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/8366869610/
It looked a bit rough, then I realized that it was one where the flash hadn't
gone off.
1/100 f/8 ISO 320, something like eight or nine stops under exposed.
On the not so happy side, I don't know how many of my shots were lost due to
the camera focusing on the microphone. Even when I'm using a focus point on
the far side of the diagonal from the mic. I've heard of issues with weird
focusing under tungsten light. I wonder if the strong red gels were causing
the camera to front focus, and just end up getting the mic. Or maybe I'm doing
something wrong, hitting the focus lock too early. It's something that I do
really need to figure out.
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Larry [email protected] sent from i4est
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