High ISO

[fdisilvestro]

Projection over a building, photo taken during Melbourne White Night last February.
ISO 3200 + 1.5 Stop exposure adjustment in LR (equivalent to ~9000)

[Martin Kristiansen]

Park station central Johannesburg. People waiting for a bus. Long distance busses run all the up to the Congo from Park Station. A harrowing three or four day journey. This was shot on a Sony APSC at 1600 ISO.

[John R]

Great stuff, Larry, especially coming from m43.

Very nice. Some of them even look like they were taken in another time.

JR

[langier]

Thanks Martin & John!

Indeed, they were taken on a different track of time. It's part of my lifetime of blessings to be able to witness my faith.

Do they have noise and other image degradation? You bet. But, it's about pictures, not pixels. Emotion trumps the technique, but when they come together to create a synaxis...

Here's three more from this year in California, Olympus 5-II with the Oly 12-40 and Panasonic 35-100. Blending in the background and reverent silence was key. Had to fight for every photon at ISO 12,800... then there was the candles "burning out" and off the scale... Thank goodness for IBIS and nearly 45 years of practice! :-)

[Telecaster]

Larry, these really are wonderful photos.

-Dave-

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Larry, these really are wonderful photos.

-Dave-

Yes, they are.

[langier]

Thanks Dave & Eric!

[Martin Kristiansen]

Another very lovely set of images. Exactly the kind of work I was hoping to see. I like the execution and the subject matter.

[MattBurt]

I was traveling for work last week and for our client events, I'm the default photographer. I like doing it and it gives me something to do besides drink and schmooze which both can become tiresome.
These were shot at ISO 6400 at our Luau themed client event. The K-1 mk2 is definitely the best high ISO shooter I have used. Handy for when I need it although I don't shoot above 1600 all that often unless I'm shooting starscapes or something like this without a flash.
I also agree that for the most part, dark photos should look dark!

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

I was scouting for viewpoints in Miami. Finding a parking spot took much longer than anticipated, so I ended up running around, shooting handheld, with no time to set up a tripod. Hence the ISO 2500:

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

I posted this one earlier in the User Critique forum, without mentioning that it was taken at ISO 10,000:

[MattBurt]

More often my higher ISOs happen for shots like this selfie. 3200 here.
IMGP7107-Edit by Matt Burt, on Flickr

[Martin Kristiansen]

Some really good images I think Slobadan. I remember the portrait you posted on the other thread. I like it very much.

 Astro I have never really tried. Driving up to Botswana and Zimbabwe next week. Enetering the rainy season now but if it’s clear I should give it a go.

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

I prefer to limit the ISO to 1600 and adjust exposure in post.

Edit: and underexposing

I agree. Pushing the ISO beyond that, most likely achieves nothing else than reducing the dynamic range and amplifying noise.

Underexposing (and pushing in postprocessing) allows to keep exposure times short, and improve the exposure headroom for highlights (typically a lot of those under low-light conditions).

Cheers,
Bart

[digitaldog]

I prefer to limit the ISO to 1600 and adjust exposure in post.

Edit: and underexposing

It isn't at all possible to adjust exposure in post. Exposure takes place at time of capture alone and is the sole attribute of how much light (photons) strike the sensor based on shutter and aperture.
You can adjust brightness in post.
https://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=56906.new%23new
In terms of ISO (high or otherwise), this is a necessary read:
https://photographylife.com/iso-invariance-explained

[Ivo_B]

Park station central Johannesburg. People waiting for a bus. Long distance busses run all the up to the Congo from Park Station. A harrowing three or four day journey. This was shot on a Sony APSC at 1600 ISO.

Like this one!

[Ivo_B]

It isn't at all possible to adjust exposure in post. Exposure takes place at time of capture alone and is the sole attribute of how much light (photons) strike the sensor based on shutter and aperture.
You can adjust brightness in post.
https://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=56906.new%23new
In terms of ISO (high or otherwise), this is a necessary read:
https://photographylife.com/iso-invariance-explained

ISO invariance is the key, yes.

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

It isn't at all possible to adjust exposure in post.

But then, why is the slider control of the Raw converter labeled as such?

Cheers,
Bart

[digitaldog]

But then, why is the slider control labeled as such?

Cheers,
Bart

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― Søren Kierkegaard
 

[Rob C]

There's another problem: some people have always believed that they magically up the ASA of film by exposing at a higher rating. They never do. They get an underexposed latent image. All they do with pushed processing is overdevelop the highlights and add nothing to the shadows other than push them into higher contrast. You don't record what the film can't sense. You can only screw with what it has caught, and generally not very nicely.

If blocked highlights are your thing, empty shadows turn you on, then way to go!