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Technical Forum: ISO / Low Light Forum

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Please consider and discuss your Low light experiences. I'm looking for any technical challenges, discoveries, frustrations working in lower light with the digital camera? 

Please review these online resources regarding ISO / & film speed origins: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_speed#Digital (Links to an external site.)

http://digital-photography-school.com/iso-settings/ (Links to an external site.)

 

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    • Collapse Subdiscussion Jill Mullan

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      I experimented with low and high ISO's and aperture then lengthened the speed of exposure. One of the things I could not get to balance out were the florescent lights mixed with incandescent and LED's. When I closed the aperture and shortened the exposure the Florescent lights didn't wash out but the exposure was too dark. How can I get a more balanced shot? I did find a couple of graphics demonstrating F-stop and Speed online.
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      I experimented with low and high ISO's and aperture then lengthened the speed of exposure. One of the things I could not get to balance out were the florescent lights mixed with incandescent and LED's. When I closed the aperture and shortened the exposure the Florescent lights didn't wash out but the exposure was too dark. How can I get a more balanced shot?

      I did find a couple of graphics demonstratinglow_light_photography_maximum_aperture.jpg F-stop and Speed online. Camera-Low-Light-ISO.jpg

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            • Collapse Subdiscussion Ashlee Flores

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                 This assignment was quite challenging to me but so worth it in the end. I must admit I was having a bit of trouble shooting in program mode. I went camping Saturday night and I thought it would be a great idea to get some twilight photos of the river. Well, It was a disaster!  I changed my ISO but couldn't figure out how to change my shutter speed. I also didn't have my tripod so that played a major factor to my epic failure. After taking a bunch of dark black blurry photos and being frustrated, I decided to call it a night.    So, today I re-read the assignment and watched some tutorials about my camera and realized that I can't change the shutter speed in program mode. :) Changing the ISO is like changing the film speed. It all clicked after that. I went outside tonight, with my tripod, and learned so much about program mode and what the ISO really does. I tried ISO 100,400,800,1600, and 3200. I really like shooting with an ISO 100 because it captured so much detail and made the pictures look really neat.  ISO 3200- F/3.5  1 sec ISO 1600-F/3.5 2 sec ISO 100- F/3.5 30 sec ISO 800 F/3.5 6 sec ISO 200-F/3.5 15 sec ISO 400-F/3.5 8 sec ISO 100-F/3.5  20 sec  
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                 This assignment was quite challenging to me but so worth it in the end. I must admit I was having a bit of trouble shooting in program mode. I went camping Saturday night and I thought it would be a great idea to get some twilight photos of the river. Well, It was a disaster!  I changed my ISO but couldn't figure out how to change my shutter speed. I also didn't have my tripod so that played a major factor to my epic failure. After taking a bunch of dark black blurry photos and being frustrated, I decided to call it a night.  

               So, today I re-read the assignment and watched some tutorials about my camera and realized that I can't change the shutter speed in program mode. :) Changing the ISO is like changing the film speed. It all clicked after that. I went outside tonight, with my tripod, and learned so much about program mode and what the ISO really does. I tried ISO 100,400,800,1600, and 3200. I really like shooting with an ISO 100 because it captured so much detail and made the pictures look really neat. 

              ISO 3200- F/3.5  1 sec

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              ISO 1600-F/3.5 2 sec

              _MG_6683-1.jpg

              ISO 100- F/3.5 30 sec

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              ISO 800 F/3.5 6 sec

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              ISO 200-F/3.5 15 sec

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              ISO 400-F/3.5 8 sec

              _MG_6697.jpg

              ISO 100-F/3.5  20 sec

              _MG_6704-1.jpg

               

              Edited by Ashlee Flores on Sep 1 at 11:02pm
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