Inadvertent very-high ISO shots, interesting results
RovingEyePhoto
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I posted a while back that I'd inadvertently shot a dealership full of Ferraris and Maseratis and a few odd Porches and MGs at a ridiculously high ISO 3200, used a pod so didn't need it, just screwed-up. Also didn't bring along polarizing filters, so another screw-up. You'd think time to erase the card and forget it, right? But how often does one get unfettered access to so much beautiful machinery? So I processed through ACR, using the "Detail" tab "Luminance" slider generally in the 60-85 range, and results to me don't look so bad. Actually, with all that beautiful milled and chromed and painted metalwork, seems to add a certain power-reality to the whole thing, and with so much reflection and color bouncing all around, high ISO maybe adds a certain panache. Or maybe I'm just rationalizing to make myself feel better. So treating the whole thing as an experiment, and wonder what some expert dGrinners around here think. Shots are up on Smugmug, http://rovingeyephoto.smugmug.com/Mechanicals, click on Category pic to get to Gallery.
Camera is an Oly E-3, lenses are Zuiko 12-60 f/2.8-4, 50 f/2 macro, and 7-14 f/4. Crop factor is 2.0. Shots are all in sRGB colorspace, sized high as I could get below 600k without interpolating pixels (think that's the right term, interpolating).
Greatly appreciate a few of you guys/gals looking and commenting. I could link a few shots into here, but going there you get them all. What more could I have done, and is it really necessary to process further, or even desirable, for screen viewing? I don't think I'd dare print from these files, not sure the high ISO noise would come off so well. Thoughts?
Camera is an Oly E-3, lenses are Zuiko 12-60 f/2.8-4, 50 f/2 macro, and 7-14 f/4. Crop factor is 2.0. Shots are all in sRGB colorspace, sized high as I could get below 600k without interpolating pixels (think that's the right term, interpolating).
Greatly appreciate a few of you guys/gals looking and commenting. I could link a few shots into here, but going there you get them all. What more could I have done, and is it really necessary to process further, or even desirable, for screen viewing? I don't think I'd dare print from these files, not sure the high ISO noise would come off so well. Thoughts?
See my work at http://www.flickr.com/photos/26525400@N04/sets/. Policy is to initially upload 10-20 images from each shoot, then a few from various of the in-process shoots each time I log on, until a shoot is completely uploaded.
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Nice shots, but why do we have to work to see them?
Don
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Many thanks for taking the time to look at the shots. My reaction is same as yours, doesn't seem to bother for screen viewing. I'm processing remaining shots as we talk, taken at ISO 100, so will have very similar images to compare to. That should show every nasty.
Thanks again, and sorry for working you so hard ...