[Leica] IMGs: Beauty of M9 colors at night (Bangkok portfolio)

[Charlie Chan]

Same as with the DMR. Much better to shoot at -2EV and alter in LR than push ISO up.

Charlie

www.charlie-chan.co.uk


On 7 Oct 2014, at 22:46, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:

> Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. So underexpose and then push it to
> Lightroom is presumably better than just running up the ISO? Is it the
> theory that with jacking up the ISO, you are increasing the signal at the
> sensor end, whereas "push processing" just rely on the the sensor's ability
> to capture the shadows?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:39 PM, <mitcha at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have always liked the colors that one can get with the M9, and the ones
>> at night can be particularly beautiful as long as one processes the files
>> to look like night. One that I like particularly is this Bangkok picture:
>> 
>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/malland/9139937872/in/photostream/lightbox/
>> 
>> The above pictures was shot at ISO 800 with the Summilux-50 pre-APH lens
>> (f/2.8 at 1/60 sec). If you want to see more you can download the following
>> 8MB PDF file with 16 Bangkok night shots:
>> 
>> http://bit.ly/1i93new
>> 
>> Most of these were shot using the technique of "shooting at ISO 640 and
>> pushing in Lightroom 5;" some have been pushed as much as 4 stops. Shooting
>> in this way actually makes the M9 a good camera for low light night
>> photography, considering the results that are possible even in street
>> photography.
>> 
>> Most of these pictures were made on very dark nights, often without any
>> street lights: the light mostly was from fluorescent tubes from shop
>> windows or food carts. Conditioned by the bright, flat light in shopping
>> centers, we tend to think of fluorescent lighting as ugly; actually
>> fluorescent tubes can produce beautiful colors. Indeed, there is a range of
>> fluorescent cine lights called "Kino Flo."
>> 
>> C&C welcomed. Also, please post your color night shots.
>> 
>> - - Mitch
>> 
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