Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 25 February 2008 in Business & Industry.
For the next week, maybe two, I'll be posting a series of industrial night shots all taken at the same power plant site. I thought I'd posted this particular image before, but if so, I couldn't find it in my archive. I'm posting it now for reference. It was shot hand held at 3200 ISO. Tomorrow's posting will be a shot from nearly the same vantage point, at ISO 100, using a tripod. I'm particularly interested in comments about how the large difference in ISO affects your perception of the image. For instance, do you not like the image at 3200? do you have a preference for one image over the other because of the noise?
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A nice image. I don't notice grain here despite the high iso.
25 Feb 2008 6:51am
@Michael Skorulski: I note the EXIF data says ISO 1600, but I don't think that's correct. It may be because of the way my camera reports ISO above 1600. The "grain" isn't that bad in my opinion, at 3200 ISO --it certainly doesn't render an image unusable (unless you want to process it as an HDR image), but what grain there is may largely be hidden by the relatively small image size here.
Just want to second Michael. Maybe the grain would be recogizable at a higher resolution, but here it's almost invisible.
25 Feb 2008 12:22pm
@MadScientist: I think the size of the image is a factor. You don't see the "grain" until you get to a greater enlargement but I think the lower ISO, lower noise image, appears to have a greater "solidity."
great shot! definitely my favorite of your industrial shots. i love the sharpness and the color and light. nice composition.
25 Feb 2008 8:13pm
@danthro: Others coming. In fact, I took some more shots last night that I have yet to process.
grain or no grain, i like this image a lot. yes, a lower iso setting would give it more solidity.
25 Feb 2008 9:34pm
@Mortola: With several similar shots I have been struggling with how to represent the tonality --especially in the mid tones. Basically, I can't decide how much I want illuminated.
Dear 12bit, As always nicely framed and captured. I was without a PC for over tree weak. My main board (AKA Mother board) failed and had to be sent for repair. I was using other PCs around the house, but I had none of my accounts and bookmarks.
Now I see how dependent we have become on not so trusty technology.
Thanks once again
26 Feb 2008 2:30am
@Amir: Depends on how you look at it I guess. I've never really had a computer failure I couldn't fix myself --well, my son's computer still wouldn't work after I changed out the power supply, and I figured it was a motherboard problem, but it was several years old so I just bought a new one. If my current computer crapped out on me --with something major like a motherboard-- there's no way I'd spend the money fixing it. I'd just buy a new one. Of course, I'd pull the hard drives and just use them over a USB interface.
Just made it back to your blog tonight and was pleasantly surprised to see you posting more industrial shots...I'll wait until tomorrow to comment which I like best but right now I want to see more detail!
26 Feb 2008 2:41am
@Shar: I pre-posted a week's worth before Animus shut down on me the other night. I probably had enough processed for about two weeks and last night I took some more that I have yet to download from my camera --I'm trying to do more shooting before we shift back to that dreadful daylight savings time.
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