Pushing the limits... putting the learning into practice.
This is a follow on from my experimental image and post yesterday. Learning needs to be consolidated and the only way to do that is to put it into practice, so I went out tonight to take a high ISO image that would build on yesterday's experiment.
This ruined house is in the middle of the village, just 100 metres from the site of yesterday's image - the land has been cleared ready for the building to be restored and I wanted to capture it in the state I have always known it in before renovation starts.
This was taken hand-held at ISO 6400, f/4 and 1/3 sec exposure - I'm happy that this image stands on it's own two feet as it is. If anything, the effects of the high ISO add to the moodiness of the shot, which was the feel I was aiming for.
@wordpixman Thanks Arthur, much appreciated - actually it's not a negative, it's a straight night shot taken in very dim light.. but I can see how you might think otherwise.
This ha a lovely etched quality about it. In some ways it reminds me of the "scraper-board" pictures the girls did when they were younger. I looked back at yesterdays picture and information and found it very interesting. Katharine
I have mixed emotions on this one. Love the building! I am sad that the building has been left to rot so to speak but the trees have a funny look to that that I find distracting. I think I would like this better using another method.
Impressive, Richard. The noise you may get with high ISO is more like film grain and is more acceptable in black and white, I think. Anyway it's a fav for me!
@janiskay Hi Janice - Hoorah! Honest feedback, and very much appreciated. Not sure how to answer you though and not sure what I could have done to have changed the trees if I had wanted to - which I obviously didn't. The lighting for this was very flat, being a rather dim sodium vapour street lamp. I'm sending you two JPEGs by private mail - the shot SOOC and my first colour edit: I think the trees are rendered more or less the same in these two and in my final edit... note the trailer parked in front of the walls which I had to 'lose'!
@vignouse As I said I really don't know anything about this high ISO. I meant to look it up but didn't. But looking at what you had to work with, I believe you did your best! Of course I never doubted that from the beginning. I don't believe you couldn't have done anything different. That lighting was the pits. I would have given up after the first edit. I think that what you did with what you had to work with is awesome. Thanks so much for sharing this with me. I found it interesting to see how far you came and how time consuming it must have been.
@janiskay Thanks Janice - I like a challenge - and that was the whole point of the exercise. The processing took suprising little time - about 20 minutes from SOOC to finished B&W image: the longest part was getting rid of the trailer and the harsh shadows in a convincing manner. What I hope this showed you is the power of raw images - all that you see was in the raw file SOOC, it just need to be brought out.
Apologies to other followers who haven't had the benefit of seeing the interim images.
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Apologies to other followers who haven't had the benefit of seeing the interim images.