High Iso Photos

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by tom w w

Kayleigh

Here is a crop of the head as shot, bottom part, its very dark as I expect to mess around with exposure / brightness and the camera was set not to loose highlights as I had been shooting into the sunset.

In the top half I have selectifully sharpend and smoothed, rather than doing the whole image. If I was trying to make something out of the image I would do this much more carefully. Look at the difference between the area marked A and B. As the original is a raw image it is expected to be "messed with"



Here is the sort of pic I like to take, it is almost as shot.



I would agree that the less you have to do the better.
But I still find it amazing that anything comes out when the is so little light, and its hand held at 400mm.

I see what you mean the image is dark and does look better with a little manipulation but I still think some images are over done and this spoils them IMO, your bird is lovely.

[tom w w]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

I see what you mean the image is dark and does look better with a little manipulation but I still think some images are over done and this spoils them.

Absolutly agree
This was never going to be a great shot

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

your bird is lovely.

Thanks

[Jim Ford]

I don't think the OP's image is so much noisy as oversharpened (which will accentuate noise anyway). Still, it's difficult to analyse the image much as it isn't very large.

Jim

[skyatnight]

Originally Posted by tom w w

I have been taken wildlife photographs for a few years now. And used to be a keen film user in years gone by.

But today we can take photos in poor light and then with a bit of photo-shop it amazes me what we can do.



Taken with a Canon 7D @ iso 3200.
Its been photo-shopped
1) Crop
2) reduce noise x2
3) Sharpen
Took about 5 mins.

We are lucky

I have to agree with someone else, I tend to print only at A3+ and this photo of yours would not go to A4, noise etc, sorry.

HOWEVER the birds at the feeder IS good.

[momji1971]

Not sure if I've understood but if the bottom half was the original RAW I think you're making life hard for yourself.

You would get a cleaner file by exposing right up to the highlights. You will be losing lots of information by creating dark images then trying to rescue them in your converter. Google exposing to the right.

regards.
Stu.

[pressld2]

Originally Posted by squishy

This is from ISO 3200 on my 40D (which is a fairly old body now), with selective noise reduction on different parts of the image. I use a strong filter (in topaz denoise) on the background, then a much more detail sensitive filter on the subject to get rid of the most obvious noise without any real visible effect on the detail.



It's far from the quality of lower ISO's, but I can get a nice looking A4 print out of that

Certainly a world apart from the bridge camera I used to have.

Adam, I think that's astonishingly good for such a high ISO! I think in next year's schedule of WAB meets we need a day round at your house so you can show us how you did that!

Dave P.

[Johnny81]

The fox picture I have to agree is outstanding - I'm only a novice photographer and probably missing the point of the thread, but I just bang all my DSLR photos into neat image and clean them up, especially the ones I started out with and was very naive when it came to things like ISO, still am

[tom w w]

Its interesting to read the comments, but I don't think I got my point over in the first place.

What i was meaning was that modern kit produces increadable results in extream conditions. There would have been no chance of getting that shot in years gone by as a spur of the moment snap. If you had wanted to take a shot virtualy in the dark in years gone by you would have had to load high iso film and push the processing etc etc.

Yes I could have made the shot brighter by using a tripod to increase the light hitting the sensor. I had a nice carbon tripod with me. Quite frankly that wasn't what i was trying to do so i didn't bother setting it up. I was just trying for a snap shot, and thats what i got.

Here I've just taken a shot with the camera set to take bright sunset shots into the sun, and in the end got a nice little reminder of what was a magic moment with this stag at the end of a long day for me.

The end result will never make anything other than a file stored on my PC and seen by a few friends maybe. I won't ever print it out at A3 or A4 or any other size. I'm not saying its a great shot, far from it. I just spent a few moments processing to produce a snap shot.

I'm simply trying to say we are lucky with the kit thats out there these days making photography both easy and cheap.

Having said that I do sell photo's, and they dont sell because they are technically good photo's, although some are. The punters don't care. When I'm fortunate enough to get a popular photo its usually the subject and the composition that counts. (not that this photo is remotly good enough to sell, before anyone thinks thats what I mean)