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Inadvertent very-high ISO shots, interesting results

RovingEyePhotoRovingEyePhoto Registered Users Posts: 314 Major grins
edited January 18, 2009 in Finishing School
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?
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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    DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited January 18, 2009
    What I don't understand is when asking for help you make us paste the link, instead of just maling it an imbeded hot link? Common now!

    Nice shots, but why do we have to work to see them?headscratch.gifscratchheadscratch.gif

    Don
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    RovingEyePhotoRovingEyePhoto Registered Users Posts: 314 Major grins
    edited January 18, 2009
    DonRicklin wrote:
    What I don't understand is when asking for help you make us paste the link, instead of just maling it an imbeded hot link? Common now!

    Nice shots, but why do we have to work to see them?headscratch.gifscratchheadscratch.gif

    Don
    You know, you're absolutely right. Embarrassed to say, I don't know how to do that. When I initially pasted it, I thought it would be hot, so reworded a bit to make clear it wasn't. I see a hot link button at top here, so am trying it: http://rovingeyephoto.smugmug.com/Mechanicals. Looks hot, so signing off and we'll see if it is. Tried going back to original and editing, but button doesn't appear.

    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 ...
    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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    RovingEyePhotoRovingEyePhoto Registered Users Posts: 314 Major grins
    edited January 18, 2009
    DonRicklin wrote:
    What I don't understand is when asking for help you make us paste the link, instead of just maling it an imbeded hot link? Common now!

    Nice shots, but why do we have to work to see them?headscratch.gifscratchheadscratch.gif

    Don
    Aha, got it! Learn something everyday. Will try to edit it into original. Thanks.
    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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