Larry, That's remarkably low noise for ISO 10K, even on a K-5. Were you shooting RAW or JPG?
It's also a very appealing photo. Rick On Mar 8, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > If I'm shooting in auto exposure mode it will almost always be TAv. Unless > you're shooting a completely static scene on a good tripod, shutter speed > will affect the way the photo looks. Unless everything in the scene is beyond > the hyperfocal distance and you are below a diffraction limiting f-stop, > aperture will affect the way a photo looks. In most cases, the noise or > dynamic range from various ISOs will affect the image less, and will have a > lower chance of causing a photo to be unusable, than either of the other two. > > Yesterday morning, I took a few minutes out of cleaning up my yard to > photograph a snake I caught. I had never seen one like this, and wanted to > post some photos to facebook which I often refer to as my "auto-bon", because > I can post pictures of wildlife, and they will automatically be identified > for me. After two people marked one of the photos as a favorite I was moving > it into my monthly best-of and noticed that it was shot at ISO 10,000. > > I'll admit, that I had noticed a little noise in the background, but with my > K20, any shot of the sky would show worse noise at ISO 800, possibly 400. > Welcome to the twenty first century where an ISO 10,000 photo might look "a > little rough in the shadows". > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/16565623039/in/set-72157651226463471 > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) > > -- > 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. http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- 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.
