One of the really amazing things about photography now is the ability to take snapshots in low light. The compromise with these shots is however they tend to get grainy. Different bodies/sensors deliver different amounts of grain, and many people seem to be absolutely obsessed with removing the grain, and they pay big money to get applications to get rid of it.
For a while I was thinking like that, but then I started experimenting with it and realized, that in the right situations (like everything else), you want the grain. After all, there wouldn’t be a Photoshop filter to add grain if it were not the case right?
So, this weekend was my first event shoot with the new body and I knew it was going to be dark (part of the reason I was so excited to shoot it with the new body, just to see how well it would work). I also knew that unlike last year, there was going to be a band. Wild lights, wild colors, wild movement – wild times.
But before things got going I found this horn on stage and took a shot at the full ISO of 12800 to see just what would come out. And this is what you are looking at. The grainy photo with some vibration mimicking the grainy sound of the horn, that in the hands of the player is never really sitting still either.
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