Nice job, My wife and I were interested in how you got such good images, considering the low light. We did notice also that they were shot at very slow speeds, I was certain that you must be using a tripod? Did you also use flash along with the slow shutter speed? In any case, Nice pictures! If you can shed some light (Pun) on your technique we would appreciate it. Thanks, Terry
The long answer is, I'm using a 17-55m Canon lens fixed at 2.8 aperture, with image-stabilization. I set the flash off, and I don't use a tripod. I instruct the camera to stay at 2.8 and choose whatever shutter speed it needs to make a usable exposure. The built-in light metering does the rest. I record in RAW mode, and post-process the photos in Aperture on OS X, with edge-enhancement off, tweaking the brightness, contrast, exposure, temperature, and white balance as needed. It takes less then a minute on each photo after you get used to it.
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Regarding your sjbp photos
Date: 2010-01-18 08:04 am (UTC)My wife and I were interested in how you got such good images, considering the low light. We did notice also that they were shot at very slow speeds, I was certain that you must be using a tripod? Did you also use flash along with the slow shutter speed? In any case, Nice pictures!
If you can shed some light (Pun) on your technique we would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Terry
Re: Regarding your sjbp photos
Date: 2010-01-19 12:19 pm (UTC)The long answer is, I'm using a 17-55m Canon lens fixed at 2.8 aperture, with image-stabilization. I set the flash off, and I don't use a tripod. I instruct the camera to stay at 2.8 and choose whatever shutter speed it needs to make a usable exposure. The built-in light metering does the rest. I record in RAW mode, and post-process the photos in Aperture on OS X, with edge-enhancement off, tweaking the brightness, contrast, exposure, temperature, and white balance as needed. It takes less then a minute on each photo after you get used to it.