{"id":940,"date":"2008-09-19T21:31:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T12:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-09-19\/940"},"modified":"2008-09-19T21:31:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T12:31:30","slug":"a-few-more-d700-f12-night-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-09-19\/940","title":{"rendered":"A Few More D700 f\/1.2 Night Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikko 50mm f\/1.2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/1.2, ISO 640 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nTextured<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

A shot from my recent Impossible Photography<\/a>\nouting, where I used<\/span> a very<\/span> fast lens (Nikkor 50mm f\/1.2) and the Nikon\nD700's low-light performance for some night photography in Kyoto.<\/p>\n\n

This was the entrance foyer of a restaurant<\/span> that had plenty of light.... I only needed<\/span> ISO 1100 at f\/1.2 and 1\/100sec for the wider shot....<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikko 50mm f\/1.2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>100 sec, f<\/span>\/1.2, ISO 1100 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

It reminds me a bit of the front desk at the Four Seasons Resort,\nWhistler<\/a>, although this was perhaps more out of place.<\/p>\n\n

The low-light performance still doesn't help with the problem of dynamic\nrange.... of being able to capture\/display the detail in dark shadows at\nthe same time as capturing\/displaying detail in relatively brighter areas. Our eyes are<\/span> much better at this, but I'm sure some day technology will\ncatch up. (After all, it's just counting photons.)<\/p>\n\n

Here's a perfect example of the dynamic-range problem, with even dim\nlanterns “blowing out” the sensor, which was using an exposure aimed at\ncapturing detail in the darker portions of the frame.....<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikko 50mm f\/1.2 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>320 sec, f<\/span>\/1.2, ISO 640 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Unlike the first two pictures in this post, or the others in the original\npost<\/a>, this last one has had some post-processing. In Lightroom, I\n“painted” negative exposure on the big lighted sign in the center, to bring\nout some of the letting, which had been totally blown-out white. It reveals<\/span> that the name of the place is kashintei<\/i> (\u82b1\u5fc3\u4ead),<\/span> for whatever\nthat's worth.<\/p>\n\n

Because of the strange things that happen to digitally-encoded colors near\nthe limits of brightness<\/a>, I also painted<\/span> on a lot<\/span> of desaturation, so\nthat the sign wouldn't turn wonky, unrealistic colors as I toned<\/span> down its\nbrightness. Perhaps the sheer whiteness I ended<\/span> up with looks odd in this\ndecidedly warm scene, so I should<\/span> have painted on a bit<\/span> of the\nyellow-orange that is pervasive everywhere else. Lightroom allows for that,\nbut I haven't<\/span> figured out a way<\/span> to sample a color<\/span> from the image when\nselecting a color<\/span> to tinge with, so at this point it's more trouble than\nit's worth. (I've been running a fever<\/span> on and off today, so I have<\/span> a low<\/span>\nthreshold for trouble.)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A shot from my recent Impossible Photography outing, where I used a very fast lens (Nikkor 50mm f\/1.2) and the Nikon D700's low-light performance for some night photography in Kyoto.<\/p>

This was the entrance foyer of a restaurant that had plenty of light.... I only needed ISO 1100 at f\/1.2 and 1\/100sec for the wider shot....<\/p>

It reminds me a bit of the front desk at the Four Seasons Resort, Whistler, although this was perhaps more out of place.<\/p>

The low-light performance still doesn't help with the problem of dynamic range.... of being able to capture\/display the detail in dark [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}