Christian Science Church

Flyinggina

This picture of the Christian Science Church in Boston was taken yesterday in RAW at iso 3200, 1/13 second at f 5.0 with my 20d. Focal length was 41 mm using the 17-85 mm lens. It is noisy, but does capture the way the sky looked.

DanielB

a "christian science" church???

sounds like an oxymoron to me

great photo. maybe photoshop a little more for noise reduction? it isn't too noticable.

USAIR

Great capture very eerie

Thanks
Fred

Flyinggina

Daniel and Fred. Thanks for taking the time to comment. :

Daniel. I already applied noise reductrion to the whole picture using Neat Image. Then sharpening with Focus Magic. I think that more noise reduction would have blurred the details too much. A certain amount of noise is pretty inevitable when you shoot night shots at iso 3200. If anybody wants to try to clean it up more without softening it too much, I'd be pleased to see the result. The original is here: http://flyinggina.smugmug.com/photos/46718296-L.jpg

Fred. Yes, it was a very creepy light. That's what drew me to take the picture.

Virginia

Bystander

Flyinggina wrote:

This picture of the Christian Science Church in Boston was taken yesterday in RAW at iso 3200, 1/13 second at f 5.0 with my 20d. Focal length was 41 mm using the 17-85 mm lens. It is noisy, but does capture the way the sky looked.

Great photo -- noise adds drama in this case imo.

Here's one of mine (yours is much more interesting, I think -- you did capture the sky beautifully) -- pocket Olympus C-7000 (20d was resting) Its soft and noisy but I like it -- took it on the way to a concert -- hand held at about 1/10.

Flyinggina

Wow, Bystander. That is a beautiful picture. Were you on your way to the Symphony?


Virginia

Bystander

Flyinggina wrote:

Wow, Bystander. That is a beautiful picture. Were you on your way to the Symphony?


Virginia

Hi Virginia,

Thanks for the Wow! Always appreciated!

As to what we were doing -- we were on our way to Symphony Hall, but it was a Leon Redbone/Van Morrison concert, not the BSO. Hope to see them soon.

Cheers,
Frank

rutt

Very nice. I've been by there a few times in the sweet light this fall and thought I should shoot it. Once I even had a camera and wide angle. But that time my wife was driving and in "if you tell me to turn left, I'll turn right" mode, so I told her to stop and she went.

Both shots very nice, actually. I'll have to think of something more interesting if I decide to go shoot it.

ginger_55

I love that toned photo! And it doesn't look noisy to me. Anything at a high ISO out of my 20D is noisy.

How do you get the ISO to 3200, I only notice mine going up to 1600. I have wondered if there wasn't some way it went higher.

The quality of your shot made me think you had a "better" camera than a 20D. And I do love the sky, too.

ginger

robscomputer

Great photo! I like taking pictures of churches, they have such interesting designs.

Rob

rutt

ginger_55 wrote:

How do you get the ISO to 3200, I only notice mine going up to 1600. I have wondered if there wasn't some way it went higher.

There is a Custom Function called Expanded ISO. If you set it you can set ISO to 3200 or High, I forget which. Either way, it's 3200.

Flyinggina

rutt wrote:

There is a Custom Function called Expanded ISO. If you set it you can set ISO to 3200 or High, I forget which. Either way, it's 3200.

Thanks, Rutt, for passing this hint on. A friend of mine told me about it shortly after I got my 20d last summer. Don't know why Canon doesn't just set it up so you have ixo 3200 from the get go, but they don't. Once you make the change, you don't have to think about it again. Except, of course, to remember to set the iso back to 200 the nexst day.

Flyinggina

I am on the road using someone else's computer so not able to respond the way I would like but want you to know I did see your posts. Thanks to all of you for your comments. Rutt, you will find lots of great photo ops around the Christian Science church. It is worth a visit to the area on foot to check out the possibilities. Ginger, I'm glad you like the photo. Noise doesn't bother me in certain circumstances and I know one just has to accept it when using a very high iso. I haven't had a chance to print it yet and that will be the true test. In any event, it is fun to see how much noise you can get rid of while retaining a fairly sharp photo. Always a new challenge, right?


Virginia