Teaching has it that you should have the lowest ISO you can get your hands on when taking the picture. It stands to reason: you get detail, you get images without noise, you get....the picture.
But what if the ISO doesn't allow you to capture the moment? Then you try to compensate and you realise you might get that hand held picture only if your exposure is a few seconds under a minute. Even having super fast glass ain't going to cut it here: f stops of f/0.34 just don't exist on humble commercial lenses. Light Meter says no - or worse has a seizure.
Sometimes you have to make a judgement. Compromise and get the picture or lose everything.
Circus time in Stuttgart, Germany. December 2011.
Picture details:
Nikon D700 Nikkor 24-70 f2.8 lens @38mm, @f/4.0 1/500sec
And yes, an eye watering ISO of 6400. Some minor noise reduction in Lightroom 3.6
I could hardly see the person in front of me in that dark tent let alone focus on the unfolding events in front of me. The best compositions were obtained using Live View and holding the camera aloft to get over peoples' heads and compose using the light beams to frame the subject. A modest depth of field was required due to movement on the trapeze swaying and the high shutter speed for similar issues. This image was taken as part of the term time's homework in photo class - 6 images with a Theme of Time. For my part I concentrated on images that had "Time" in the title of the image.
I gotta get those ISOs down to 200 for my photog work in order to get good noise free images. Unless of course that this means I lose the picture...
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