Post 325 – Into the light
Tonight’s picture is another available light shot of Britt lit by a pair of windows and arrayed against a white seamless backdrop. As we moved farther from the window the intensity of the light fell off, and I was losing too many pictures. After seeing those around me with D3s getting the shots, I followed Rick’s Sammon’s adage “If you notice the noise, it is a boring picture”, I cranked the ISO up to 1000 and shot away. I still missed some due to motion blur, but my “keeper” ratio went way up. Lightroom does a good job on noise any way. Just “expose to the right”, use a little NR, and noise just isn’t much of a problem…
Into the light
Lightroom 4 and Portrait Professional 10 (to handle a little noise-induced blotchyness in the shadowed side of her face.
available light – is very effective and more importantly natural lovely portrait Neil
Thanks for the comment! Available light has its limitations, but when it is right, it is really right…