Have you ever wondered what to do when you find a great treasure, but it’s in a dark room and you don’t have a flash or a tripod? Me too!
I never really learned how to use a flash anyway. I tried it a few times with borrowed equipment, but since most of my photographs are natural light landscapes, I didn’t make the investment in any lighting equipment. But my experience tells me that using the flash on my camera is never a good idea.
When I found these old windows lined up in a dark old attic, my only option was to crank up the ISO. There was some light coming through a corner window, so once again I chose the hand-held HDR technique.
I took 3 brackets at ISO 3200. In Lightroom, I reduced the noise on each of the raw files before combining them in Photomatix. Then I sharpened and reduced the noise once again in Photoshop.
What a beautiful composition Anne! You’ve done a fantastic job eliminating any high ISO noise.
Thank you very much Curt. I tried to eliminate any noise on each image before I combined them and I think that made a big difference.
Nice tip Anne. The cameras today are simply unbeleiveable with their ISO settings but of course it still takes skill (that you have exhibited) to make it work. Great job.
That’s one of the best things about digital, not only can you get super high ISO, but you can change it on the fly! Remember back in the days when you had to decide up front what ISO you wanted for your next 36 images?
Oh wow, I love this shot! What a great way to make sure you could capture and process this to bring it to us to share! Great photo!
Thanks for your kind comments, as always, Toad.