14.02.08 : Ultra low light, handheld photography
I went to the “Night Safari” in Singapore not long ago, and when they said “no flash photography allowed”, my face lit up and a big grin developed on my face.
These photos are all taken at the limit of the camera and lens. To make things more difficult, they were taken from a moving carriage (I did get out for a while but was too lazy to walk around in the dark).
What is amazing about this camera is that most of these images are brighter than what you can see with your naked eye and wouldn’t even be possible if it weren’t for the HI-2 mode for ISO (25,600 ISO). ISO 25,600 is not possible on any camera except the Nikon D3. All these photos have not been edited in any way at all. Just resized (not cropped) to 1200pixels. Manual metering, VR, continuous focus with lock priority.
So what does this mean to you? For a wedding shoot, it means that the camera gear that I own is able to shoot in extremely low light without flash. Many churches exclude flash photography so any inferior camera gear will result in blurring of the photos and underexposure. The photos below represent a revolution in camera advancement and the actual photos themselves are brighter than what you can see. Although a church has considerably more light than this, I hope it's good to know that I have all the professional camera gear that can handle any low light situation with ease.
Photographer: Hien
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I went to the “Night Safari” in Singapore not long ago, and when they said “no flash photography allowed”, my face lit up and a big grin developed on my face.
These photos are all taken at the limit of the camera and lens. To make things more difficult, they were taken from a moving carriage (I did get out for a while but was too lazy to walk around in the dark).
What is amazing about this camera is that most of these images are brighter than what you can see with your naked eye and wouldn’t even be possible if it weren’t for the HI-2 mode for ISO (25,600 ISO). ISO 25,600 is not possible on any camera except the Nikon D3. All these photos have not been edited in any way at all. Just resized (not cropped) to 1200pixels. Manual metering, VR, continuous focus with lock priority.
So what does this mean to you? For a wedding shoot, it means that the camera gear that I own is able to shoot in extremely low light without flash. Many churches exclude flash photography so any inferior camera gear will result in blurring of the photos and underexposure. The photos below represent a revolution in camera advancement and the actual photos themselves are brighter than what you can see. Although a church has considerably more light than this, I hope it's good to know that I have all the professional camera gear that can handle any low light situation with ease.
Photographer: Hien
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