Back in August, I attented a wedding party that was held the evening before the actual wedding. Sitting around the table with the light fading fast, and with mostly just the glow of some candles, I made this image of the woman sitting across from me. In the color version, you can easily see the cast of reddish light from the candles. I shot this with my Canon 5D Mark II using my 24-105mm Canon EF IS L lens at 105mm, 1/10 sec at f/4, ISO 3200. Image stabilization is a marvel because no way I could hand-hold a 105 mm lens at 1/10 and have any hope for a sharp image -- maybe in my younger days, but certainly not now. The quality is remarkable -- remember, it's shot with the camera set to ISO 3200!! No b&w film I know of could come anywhere close. Be sure to click on either image to imbigger them for better viewing of the detail and quality.
3 comments:
That is amazing, great detail. I just recently strayed into the higher ISO with a P&S Nikon at a Heart and Journey concert.
Really lovely image.
I'm actually somewhat amazed that the 5DII exhibits as much noise as this. Not because it's bad -- as you say, it's amazing -- but because my $550 Olympus E620 with a sensor that so many forum-trolls disparage produces output that compares so favorably to a $2000 full-frame camera. The practical difference appears to be at most a stop. I also agree about IS. Just remarkable what it lets you do. Yay, modern cameras!
X -- without doubt, "Yay, modern cameras." The real difference is the native size of the file -- this image will print 13x19.5 without any up-res'ing. As to the noise at ISO3200, I'll admit that I had under exposed this image by maybe one stop, and that is a guaranteed noise maker when you have to adjust the exposure in Camera Raw.
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