Which one looks better? Advice requested please

dude163

I forgot my tripod the other night for the fireworks, so i was taking pics of ppl and such , I managed to get a semi decent handheld shot of my daughter backlit using ISO 12800 , it was almost pitch black outside and manually focussing my 50mm f1.4 was a pain , however, I was wondering which is the better version here of one of the few shots that was close to being in focus;

the colour

or the B+W

shauttra · Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Posts: 778 Location: Latvia

I think BW is better, because here picture looks grainy, not noisy, like in colour Smile

kuuan · Expire: 2014-12-26

I agree, the B&W
and dude, you are using a K-x. Did you use - enlarged - live view for focusing? In these circumstances it really helps!

dude163 · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:05 pm Post subject:

Kuuan , no I didnt , I was using the viewfinder and it was almost impossible to focus!

I learned a lot about my camera however and a lot about night photography so it wasnt a wasted trip

Live view would have been a better option for sure, I keep forgetting about that, but I am not aware how to enlarge the LV .

thanks for the tips, I was thinking the same, at very high ISOs , the K-X looks like it has film grain , especially in B+W

kuuan · Expire: 2014-12-26

dude163 · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 11:47 pm Post subject:

Awesome!

Thanks very much!!!!

N · Joined: 01 Feb 2010 Posts: 32 Location: Sintra, Portugal

Too much noise in colour, but it looks really good in B&W =)