Noisy blacks

[Will Keir]

G I appreciate that your up reading my posts and that you take the time to be thoughtful.

Today I was going for a low exposure with darks after sundown, shooting a treeline in the fog. My aperture was full open at F3 on a Red Zoom 17-50mm but I just couldn't seem to get enough light for shooting in this condition. All underexposed. These are the times I really like to be shooting. I can shoot the same scene earlier in the day and darken in post. I was hoping I could capture this. Most outdoor ambient lit scenes at night seem out of my reach with the current lens. I'm trying to figure out if a faster lens will help me to accomplish my low exposure goals.

Same thing with a scene lit by bonfire or torches, I was hoping to use these sources but it seems I have to add a lighting kit to the scene.

(derailing here, but I conciously call it a low exposure, NOT an underexposure. There's nothing bad in exposing LOW, if you are certain you want a dark image, it's when you try to lift it all kinds of stuff hits fans....)

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Faster glass is a good startingpoint...

USe 5600/800 as an in-cam reference. Look at it with rlf. If there isn't enough light, it isn't. Then you need faster glass or more light. Simple stuff...

But I'd be curious to look at one of your frames... Can mail m a single frame to gunleikgroven at gmail ?

 

[Will Keir]

R3d Grab?

Faster glass is a good startingpoint...

USe 5600/800 as an in-cam reference. Look at it with rlf. If there isn't enough light, it isn't. Then you need faster glass or more light. Simple stuff...

But I'd be curious to look at one of your frames... Can mail m a single frame to gunleikgroven at gmail ?