High iso? I thought I'd share this one

In these times of D3s and 5D2s I thought I'd share a picture I've just printed for someone. This was shot in a dark hotel lobby at a recent wedding with my 1Ds3 and no flash.

ISO 3200, but pushed in post to 8000 and then brightened and contrast increased. Finally, there is no luminance nr applied, just a bit of chroma that in my preset for iso1600 (LR2)




The print is 11 by 8 inches on satin paper and looks really nice to me - grainy, but in a very good way and one that enhances the image rather than detracting.

This is a 100% crop from the original tiff, with no sharpening after raw processing.




I hope someone finds this interesting. I was surprised at how well it turned out!

Mike

ISO performance seems to be getting more and more amazing every year

Mike,

I'm really so impressed. For street and event low light B&W photography, this is already outstanding! There is such a lot of detail, for example, the freckles and the eyelashes, that are really well written. Also, as you point out, the grain obtained adds character, not a bad effect at all!

This is a welcome opportunity for us to see what one can get with the 1DsIII pushed. Could you perhaps also show us the color versions? I don't expect them to be so usable and might need more noise reduction work.

Asher

So what lens and aperture gave birth to this?

Asher,

Here is a (very quick!) colour version with the arm of the chair left in - it's actually muich better than I expected. This has about 35 chroma nr in LR2 and about 20 luminnce - at 100% the luminance starts to look unpleasant to me beyond this point. Whilst it would benefit from some cleanup in a plugin it would still make a nice small print I think.

I was shooting with the 24-105 L at this time - this was at 105 and f4 1/40th of a second. I also used the 50 1.4 during this event to get a bit more light in.

Now I'm off to bed.

Mike

Mike Shimwell said:

Asher,

Here is a (very quick!) colour version with the arm of the chair left in - it's actually muich better than I expected. This has about 35 chroma nr in LR2 and about 20 luminnce - at 100% the luminance starts to look unpleasant to me beyond this point. Whilst it would benefit from some cleanup in a plugin it would still make a nice small print I think.

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Mike, this is exceptional!

Kudos to all 4 of you, You, the handsome red-headed freckled fellow, the 5D and LR2

Asher