ISO1600 Saturday Night
Capturing the kids filling their Saturday evening with some self-selected activities.
My daughter with her favorite red licorice and a movie on mom and dad's bed - her favorite spot for sure in the house. She loves the body pillow that mommy sleeps with. This was one of about 30 frames where she was actually looking at me, like all two year olds, she is a million miles an hour when awake.
My son with his Nintendo DS game system and the Spyro game.......just before this shot he was almost in tears as he had almost made it to the next level he had worked so hard to achieve but come up a little bit short. We try to limit his playing time - but when he has a choice like tonight - this usually is picked.
Both shots taken at ISO1600 so the flash could stay off. Love being able to get acceptable results without flash indoors. They are more pleasing photos because of the lack of flash to me. I don't think even at ISO1600 you get noise that detracts from the subject matter. Cameras have come a long way since digital first game along.
Thanks for taking a look.
My daughter with her favorite red licorice and a movie on mom and dad's bed - her favorite spot for sure in the house. She loves the body pillow that mommy sleeps with. This was one of about 30 frames where she was actually looking at me, like all two year olds, she is a million miles an hour when awake.
My son with his Nintendo DS game system and the Spyro game.......just before this shot he was almost in tears as he had almost made it to the next level he had worked so hard to achieve but come up a little bit short. We try to limit his playing time - but when he has a choice like tonight - this usually is picked.
Both shots taken at ISO1600 so the flash could stay off. Love being able to get acceptable results without flash indoors. They are more pleasing photos because of the lack of flash to me. I don't think even at ISO1600 you get noise that detracts from the subject matter. Cameras have come a long way since digital first game along.
Thanks for taking a look.
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But, flash is a good thing when you need it and can figure out the right way to us it (still working on that last part
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Thanks for the comments Jan - much appreciated. At home with my kids I live at ISO 400/800/1600 so as to only use flash when completely needed. (And even then try to use diffused and bounced flash.)
I like that light from the game as well - you don't see that light as much when you are just watching him play - but it shows up in photographs pretty well.
Have a good one.
You are very correct Scott - flash does not always 'suck'.....just most of the time. Thanks for taking a look and I agree that both of these shots would have taken on a whole new look and feel with even the slightest amount of flash.
I'm not a big fan of shiny foreheads and dark rooms behind them!
Hey - thanks for taking a look.
I generally use AV mode (and these were shot in AV mode) as aperture value generally is more important to shots that I am taking and it’s a little quicker to use than M mode. You can easily just re-create these setting in manual mode though.
Here are the EXIF values for each shot above – even at ISO1600 I was only getting 1/15 or 1/20 shutter speeds since I was zoomed on most of these to 50mm on an 18-50mm zoom lens.
Daughter:
50 mm
Exposure: 1/15 at f/5.6
0 EV
Exposure program: Aperture priority
ISO speed: ISO 1600
Metering mode: Pattern
Son:
18 mm
Exposure
1/10 at f/3.5
Exposure bias: 0 EV
Exposure program: Aperture priority
ISO speed: ISO 800
Metering mode: Pattern
Looks like I fibbed a bit in the title of my post as well – the second shot of my son was actually “ISO800 Saturday Night”! With these slow shutter speeds I was propping the camera on a bed pillow to help steady my hand as I normally cannot hand hold shots of anything much less than 1/60.
These shutter speeds make shooting like this a bit more difficult than turning on the flash and shooting at 1/250 every time, but its worth it to me.
i was wondering at such a slow shutter speed how you didnt get more blur.. nice job