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PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:31 pm    Post subject: Low light shooting (I mean real low light)... Reply with quote

Hi!

I am not sure if this is the right category to put this topic in, it would fit in many different ones. Nevermind...

Today I took some photos of our daughter while playing before bedtime.
In order not to destroy the atmosphere, I did not use a flash, but decided for the 40D @ISO1000 and the Vivitar Wide Angle 2.0/24 MC that I have recently bought from Andy. I set the lens to f2.0 and started to shoot. Gosh, it was difficult to focus in these conditions. But I got about 20% of the shots acceptably in-focus.

OK, here are three shots. (EOS 40D, Viv 2.0/28 @ f2, ISO1000, 1/20sec).







And to give you an idea how dark it really was, I have shot the scene (without our daughter) with some typical settings: 40D, ISO400, f2.8, 1/60sec.
These are parameters you can often use inside a house during daytime.

A shot with these settings looks like that:

You can just guess the Lego bricks.

So, I think we can conclude that even in very low light, manual focussing is possible! Very Happy


PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd set the tungsten WB for those shots though, or with just a slight amount of "red" hue. Our eyes compensate automatically for WB of tungsten lamps and the "reality" looks "unreal". Funny but it works this way.


PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can see at the sky outside that I did set the WB to artificial light.
I did so because I wanted to keep the warm yellow tint that our lamps produce in our living room. Wink


PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LucisPictor wrote:
You can see at the sky outside that I did set the WB to artificial light.
I did so because I wanted to keep the warm yellow tint that our lamps produce in our living room. Wink


Did you correct them already? Warm yellow? LOL, that's no a lamp colour suited for a children room then! Very Happy LOL


PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What a beauty!!!!!

Great pics, unforgettable moments, sure.

The first thing: Your daughter playing and smiling. Enjoy this happiness.

The second: Very good focus. It's an ostentation of younger eyes. Very Happy

Thanks, Rino.


PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

superb pics Carsten!


PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A G Photography wrote:
LucisPictor wrote:
You can see at the sky outside that I did set the WB to artificial light.
I did so because I wanted to keep the warm yellow tint that our lamps produce in our living room. Wink


Did you correct them already? Warm yellow? LOL, that's no a lamp colour suited for a children room then! Very Happy LOL


It's not in her room, but as I write in our living room.


PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Carsten, I think these are great pictures of an even greater (= as in beautiful) daughter. You are really a lucky daddy !


PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:44 pm    Post subject: Re: Low light shooting (I mean real low light)... Reply with quote

LucisPictor wrote:

Today I took some photos of our daughter while playing before bedtime.
In order not to destroy the atmosphere, I did not use a flash, but decided for the 40D @ISO1000 and the Vivitar Wide Angle 2.0/24 MC that I have recently bought from Andy. I set the lens to f2.0 and started to shoot. Gosh, it was difficult to focus in these conditions. But I got about 20% of the shots acceptably in-focus.


I'm guessing that without the camera, neither you nor your daughter had any difficulty with the light level - plenty to see by. Hence the coment in my signature. There is a big disparity between what our eye/brain can percieve and what a camera can capture.

Camera (ˈkæ mə rə), n. Device for taking pictures in bright light

Cameras have a very long way to go.

Does your 40D have a split prism or suchlike focusing screen?


PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:12 pm    Post subject: Re: Low light shooting (I mean real low light)... Reply with quote

ChrisLilley wrote:
LucisPictor wrote:

Today I took some photos of our daughter while playing before bedtime.
In order not to destroy the atmosphere, I did not use a flash, but decided for the 40D @ISO1000 and the Vivitar Wide Angle 2.0/24 MC that I have recently bought from Andy. I set the lens to f2.0 and started to shoot. Gosh, it was difficult to focus in these conditions. But I got about 20% of the shots acceptably in-focus.


I'm guessing that without the camera, neither you nor your daughter had any difficulty with the light level - plenty to see by. Hence the coment in my signature. There is a big disparity between what our eye/brain can percieve and what a camera can capture.

Camera (ˈkæ mə rə), n. Device for taking pictures in bright light

Cameras have a very long way to go.

Very true!


ChrisLilley wrote:
Does your 40D have a split prism or suchlike focusing screen?

No, just the regular screen.


Orio wrote:
... You are really a lucky daddy !

Thanks, Orio. I am! Very Happy


PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mine from my friend's wedding, no flash, full open:

# Indeed this one is a crop as 50mm was to wide and I hadn't a zoom to not attract much attention which means problem with the photographer of the wedding who used a Nikon (not pro as it was quite small) with pop-up flash and they demanded 10YTL (8UDS, quite expensive for me) for just one printed photo.
#EOS 5D@ISO800,1/40, no flash but contra cam light support Smile
#Super Tak 50/1.4@1.4

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yalcinaydin/2914554896/in/set-72157607746795890/

whole wedding set, used Super Tak 50/1.4 and Tamron Adaptall-2 28/2.5, it has nice portrait with Super Tak but I didn't want to publish it everywhere so I didn't include it here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yalcinaydin/sets/72157607746795890


PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great shot, Yalçın!


PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Carsten

Agree with Orio (I have four girls, but all grown up). She is a doll to quote american english.

I also think the WB could be tweaked to advantage. Smile Smile


patrickh