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Reflections in high ISO (12800)

fahim mohammed

fahim mohammed

Well-known member
Cem, I came across this pic by chance. WOW. Love the colors, not garish, beautifully abstract and
such harmoniously distributed.

Excellently seen, envisioned and captured. Wish I had taken this.

Best.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
fahim mohammed said:
Cem, I came across this pic by chance. WOW. Love the colors, not garish, beautifully abstract and
such harmoniously distributed.

Excellently seen, envisioned and captured. Wish I had taken this.

Best.
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Fahim,

"beautifully abstract and [as] such[,] harmoniously distributed"

Apt and to the point. This reflection delivers delight, color and passion. By contrast, the "Portal" series, one with the title, "The door to salvation or to damnation? It's your choice!", seems to impose existential contemplation and sobriety. So in "Reflections" we have beauty devoid of responsibility. In the portal series, however, there's none of that! Instead, we're embedded in a world with imminent somber choice (and even lack of choice), that might have (or have had) great consequence on us.

What an amazing range of feelings!

Asher
 
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Mike Shimwell

New member
Rachel Foster said:
I get far more noise when I go over 6400. I'm wondering why.
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Rachel

In part it may be because downsizing can be used to mask noise - if you blur then resample and then sharpen you should remove a lot of visible noise - and also because it's really the siganl to noise ratio that matters. In Cem's picture the light parts are well exposed and the remainder is basically black. The black is easy to force down by moving the black point above the noise threshhold (try moving the black point in ACR from 5 to 25 say on a high iso image. This is fine if you don't need the lower tones to have detail) and noise can be amazingly well controlled if ou get enough exposure to the light tones, so avoiding having to lighten the tones and the noise together, or needing to stretch the contrast which also make noise moreapparent.

Just a few thoghts.

Mike
 
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