Keep it bright
01st July 2013
This is a picture from my Auntie Angela's 80th birthday. Auntie Angela is the elegant lady in the light blue top standing tall at the front of the group.
I dont normally post this kind of photograph, but I thought it was a good example of what is possible with modern digital cameras, and somebody recently asked me about high iso photography.
My own mantra would be to always use the lowest iso that I can. That normally means iso200.
In this picture I was using two flashguns, off camera, to provide the main light, I was bouncing the flash off the ceiling to soften the light and reduce shadows. As you can see the ceilings were very high and because the group is so wide the flash guns were probably thirty feet back, so I put the iso up to 3200 !! this meant the flash provided plenty of light and also the camera was able to capture the ambient light resulting in a lovely bright picture. I did worry about how the quality would be effected by the high iso, but I printed 10x8 enlargements today and they were lovely.
The secret with high iso photography is , in my opinion, to keep the image as bright as you can, this may mean over exposing slightly, but keep it bright.
I dont normally post this kind of photograph, but I thought it was a good example of what is possible with modern digital cameras, and somebody recently asked me about high iso photography.
My own mantra would be to always use the lowest iso that I can. That normally means iso200.
In this picture I was using two flashguns, off camera, to provide the main light, I was bouncing the flash off the ceiling to soften the light and reduce shadows. As you can see the ceilings were very high and because the group is so wide the flash guns were probably thirty feet back, so I put the iso up to 3200 !! this meant the flash provided plenty of light and also the camera was able to capture the ambient light resulting in a lovely bright picture. I did worry about how the quality would be effected by the high iso, but I printed 10x8 enlargements today and they were lovely.
The secret with high iso photography is , in my opinion, to keep the image as bright as you can, this may mean over exposing slightly, but keep it bright.