Low low light photography [no judges]

PaulStat · 24 Jul 2006 at 08:57

Stage photography after dark, so all there is is the stage lighting. I tried this this weekend, I had to use a relatively quick shutter speed (1/60) as they were dancing pretty quickly.

I also used the largest aperture possible (f4), I would have liked to use ISO 800 but it was just to dark so ended up using ISO 1250, which made all the pictures unbearably noisy.

The picture below is probably one of the better shots, albeit perhaps off focus and noisy

Any more tips for this type of photography would be helpful

PaulStat · 24 Jul 2006 at 13:14

Just contrasted her a bit, thanks for the suggestion. Although I will be looking into one of those lenses

PaulStat · 24 Jul 2006 at 13:31

Yup I shall def look into, mrgubby I think I prefer my contrasted one. The overall tone, colours and lighting looks nicer imo.

PaulStat · 24 Jul 2006 at 21:09

Sic said:
Paul, if you run that contrasty image through noiseware, you should get a better-looking result also, play around with the shadows/highlighting to get some more detail around her face

I've only got the trial version

PaulStat · 25 Jul 2006 at 09:03

mrgubby said:
I've got the full version if you want it processed

Might buy it myself if it's not too expensive

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