Sunday, December 27, 2009

Low light photography: seeing more than the naked eye

At the beginning of December, Pat, Pete and I went to the LA Auto Show. Obviously, the Auto Show was awesome, but for Induction purposes, I'm concentrating on my camera: the Canon EOS T1i and the Canon EFS 17-55mm f2.8 IS USM lens.

Even though the T1i isn't a top of the line DSLR, it has quite good high ISO grain, and when paired with a fast, high quality lens with image stabilization, the pictures you can get are amazing. The ability to shoot without flash is incredibly liberating. Flashless pictures are less harsh and draw less attention from, say, Porsche booth models who don't like taking pictures with geeky car guys (just a random example).

I took hundreds of photos at the Auto Show without flash, and we even went to the Getty Museum. Pictures I took of paintings revealed details we couldn't even see with the naked eye.

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