High ISO Techniques

[Joshua]

So after browsing a few threads of ISO 2500 shots I've been bitten with the jealousy bug like many others.

What I'd love is if some of the people who are best at it (yes tmfabian, I'm looking @ you) could post some of their techniques in how you produce the best results.

What I'm really curious about is 2 things: 1 Exposure Techniques and 2 PP Techniques

So if you could all comment on both of those, it'd be awesome to help those of us with lesser high ISO skills 🙂

 

[Keith]

😀

So after browsing a few threads of ISO 2500 shots I've been bitten with the jealousy bug like many others.

What I'd love is if some of the people who are best at it (yes tmfabian, I'm looking @ you) could post some of their techniques in how you produce the best results.

What I'm really curious about is 2 things: 1 Exposure Techniques and 2 PP Techniques

So if you could all comment on both of those, it'd be awesome to help those of us with lesser high ISO skills 🙂

Indeed ... the only thing I've realised about the M8 is that correct exposure is everything but yes it would be interesting to know how some of these results are obtained. Anything beyond 1250 is avoided by me!

 

[tmfabian]

way to put me on the spot 😛

Basically, I just expose for a value roughly in the middle of the highlights and shadows of the scene.

As far as PP goes, I use light room for noise reduction and what not.
The only thing I do that's kind of odd i suppose is that I slide the blacks slider up to around 65 to eliminate any shadow noise...of course I do sacrifice some detail in the blacks but then again...I always did that with film too.

I'm messing around with noise ninja lately with some good results....it really gets rid of alot of noise and it has an auto noise profiler. So after I run my images through light room i batch them through noise ninja and the final result is pretty swank.

 

[gdi]

Dan States has the secret to PP with the M8 - make sure you have C1 loaded and check his technique here, it works.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=728599&postcount=52

 

[Ben Z]

Dan States has the secret to PP with the M8 - make sure you have C1 loaded and check his technique here, it works.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=728599&postcount=52

+1! Works great, and it's quick and simple.

 

[tmfabian]

by the way, for those that use lightroom, these are my preset settings I start out with when loading in 2500 ISO shots.
This is for raw files by the way...i don't shoot jpeg, so I doubt these settings will work well with them.

+1.33 exposure
75 recovery
0 fill
70 blacks
+21 brightness
0 contrast
100% color noise reduction

This is a general starting point for my high ISO shots, then I just adjust to taste.

 

[tmfabian]

in case anyone happens to follow this particular thread over the other thread this is a double post...i hope that doesn't irk the moderators too much.

so i've finally gotten around to exporting my presets i use for my high iso shots to my website so any of ya'all who use lightroom feel free to see if they work for you if you want.

http://www.tmfabian.com/presets/

happy shooting folks.