 I spent some time in an vacant old building taking low-light tripod shots today. I believe this sign would have come from the 1960's or beyond, judging from everything I saw on the walls. I was amused to see that you could smoke cigars and pipes after business hours only, but never cigarettes. I found this sign in a totally dark room in a spooky part of the building. We were standing there reading it by the light of a dim Mini Mag Lite and it seemed like it would make such a nice picture- a rendition of really being there. Even though I had the DSLR sitting there on a tripod, I used the compact Fuji F10 handheld at ISO1600 beside the flashlight to take the shot. I keep it on -1/3EV and spot meter, so it was just a matter of locking the exposure on the hot spot. Very little post-processing- ran it through Neat Image at low-reduction and then burned down the central beam area a tiny bit. I think we need to invent a Mini-mag diffuser and fit the thing on the F10 tripod socket as a ghost hunter :). I've had a few emails about my tiny pocket camera. Fuji has announced a new version that shoots at ISO 3200 with low noise, but the F10 comes at such an attractive price ($269) that I don't know if I'd wait for the new one. I know a couple of viewers are considering a purchase, so I've uploaded an original ISO 1600 image of the above scene for comparison. View the original (but resized) image HERE. Thanks for visiting and leaving a few words. Comment (4) | Permalink |
4x6photo.com | No cigarettes, just cigars | 01 March, 2006
