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willie_901, thanks. Seems to me if you don't let much of the shadow areas go to black, or get very dark, you end up with a picture that looks like a shot from a surveillance camera. Many of my Bangkok night photos are shot in very dark streets, without street lights, with light coming mainly from neon lights from shops or food stalls. Incidentally, these fluorescent lights often create beautiful colors — I must say that I've been conditioned to think of fluorescent lights as being ugly, as they are in evenly lit shopping centers; but that is not true when they light up dark nights. Someone recently pointed out to me that for cinema filming there are Kino-Flo lights that produce this look.
The other thing, in my view, is not to neutralize the colors too much and leave some of the "color cast" induced by the lighting. Recently, I saw an interesting video of Alex Webb shooting in Koream in which he states that he likes the shooting in a mixture of daylight and artificial lights, which creates a mixture of ambers and blues, of which the following is an example:
M9 | Summicron-35v4 | ISO 320 | f/2.8 | 1/30 sec
Chiang Tung, Burma
—Mitch/Potomac, MD
Chiang Tung Days
[Direct download link for pdf file of Burma book project]
The other thing, in my view, is not to neutralize the colors too much and leave some of the "color cast" induced by the lighting. Recently, I saw an interesting video of Alex Webb shooting in Koream in which he states that he likes the shooting in a mixture of daylight and artificial lights, which creates a mixture of ambers and blues, of which the following is an example:
M9 | Summicron-35v4 | ISO 320 | f/2.8 | 1/30 sec
Chiang Tung, Burma
—Mitch/Potomac, MD
Chiang Tung Days
[Direct download link for pdf file of Burma book project]
furcafe
Veteran
I'm not arguing w/you Mitch. Like most serious shooters familiar w/digital cameras, I know about the decline in dynamic range when I dial up ISO in camera. I also read Mr. Kasson's articles w/interest because they confirmed & explained in technical terms what I knew & learned from routinely pushing M8 & M9 files when I had those cameras. I would never have pushed 4 stops on the M8/9 as in your example, but tastes differ. I'm glad you continue to enjoy your M9, but I've found the M 240 to work better for my style of shooting & workflow.