On Aug 26, 2011, at 7:37 AM, [email protected] wrote: > This is what started me thinking about the K-5 and low light cameras. > > Went with friend to Treasure Island to take pics of San Francisco. I had > never been there before, but I had googled and found it had the best view of > SF. I wanted to do this at the Ft. Point NorCal meet, but practically no > one else did. Mainly bridge logistics. > > Well, the view was FANTASTIC!
For a while, I had a friend who worked at an electric car consortium at Alameda NAS and was living in an RV parked behind the hanger. I was amused that she was basically living for free in a place with a million dollar view. > > Only once I got there I discovered my quick release plate was not with me. > (Self-kick, self-kick, self-kick, self-curse, self-curse, self-curse, > self-lambast, self-not-speaking-to-self.) > > So had to shoot without a tripod. Shot at 1600 ISO at 1/15. The only half > way decent shots I got was before it got completely dark. The rest have way > too much noise. > > http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/foggycity.htm Nice shot. The noise isn't too bad. What I often do when I run up against a technical limitation is that in post processing I take the "flaw", amp it up, and try to turn it from a bug into a feature. For example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6076201810/in/set-72157627507139704 Maybe you can do something to play with the noise in your other shots. Turn them to black and white so the noise looks like grainy film that's been pushed hard or something? > > But the view was fantastic. Even with fog. Did you get to see Bliss Dance? I've been wanting to get to TI to check it out. They probably have it lit up at night also, which could be nice with city lights in the background. > > Marnie the akaless > > (I will explain this once, then refer to it about two more times. When I > first came on the Net everyone was using handles. As a single woman, > younger, I also got hit on a fair amount in certain venues. So it seemed > like a > good idea to have a handle. I went first with femaledeer then later with > doeadeer as an email address. I shortened it to Doe in my signature/tag > line. > So for about 15 years in certain venues I was known as Doe. All that seems > silly now, so I am going to drop it here, where I have used my own name > anyway. I'll reserve it for people who actually know me by that handle. For > a > few weeks I will be the akaless, then just Marnie.) > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
