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By: Tripod troubles « Adventures of an Idiot - occasional ramblings of a photography freak

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:24:51 +0000

[...] there’s a further gadget I have… that isn’t really a tripod either… the Manfrotto monopod. Perhaps the less said about that the better. Although it is very well [...]

By: Wow, I actually remembered! « Adventures of an Idiot - occasional ramblings of a photography freak

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:58:16 +0000

[...] miffed were we with the disastrous night shots of the other day (er… evening) that mate and I decide to have another bash at it. And this time we actually [...]

By: forkboy

forkboy — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:11:02 +0000

Bite me.

(agreed)

By: fotdmike

fotdmike — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:20:11 +0000

Ok, so as from now we’ll enter a pact that we never ever agree with one another.

Agreed?

By: forkboy

forkboy — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:20:29 +0000

There you go agreeing with me again. We better cut it out before you mate gets all jealous and stuff.

By: fotdmike

fotdmike — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:35:55 +0000

LifeSpy: Didn’t say they were tripods [said sulkily]… but I still reckon they’re useless. That said, I take your point about being essential kit on demos!

Pleased you enjoy the blog. Its all your fault I started it anyway… inspired by that comment of yours on the very first “Adventures” post I did on my “yet another blog”. See… I keep telling you that you’ve got a lot to answer for.

forkboy: Yeah, reason I didn’t try a higher ISO than my normal “range” is the very reason you mentioned… increased noise. Sure, I have a few ways of getting rid of a lot of noise in post processing, but generally I’ve found I don’t really need to increase the ISO range for evening shots.

And again (though it chokes me to say so) I agree that noise can sometimes enhance certain pics.

By: LifeSpy

LifeSpy — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:51:37 +0000

Monopods a’int tripods Mike, they do a different job like holding heavy cameras and lenses with shaky old hands, like yours during good light…they ‘may’ help a little in low light by about a stop.

In use you also need to turn of shake reduction/VR/IS or whatever the camera manufactures call it as this hampers detail when using a tripod or monopod, even if its not needed in good light (plenty of it~) turning it off can improve image sharpness as it is vibrating in the camera/lens.

Monopods might become essential kit mind the way the cops are clamping down on photographers (to keep them at arms length of course)

Love reading your blog

By: forkboy

forkboy — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:49:05 +0000

I think you’re right about monopods…not that they’re complete rubbish, but that they are more for difficult daylight situations and not for night time stuff.

But your difficulties have me thinking about something that just occurred to me the other day. I had been considering a night time romp with the camera, but had great difficulty thinking of a place to go. Thinking about night time photography had me further contemplating shooting at a high ISO. So high that I would inevitably obtain plenty of noise in my images and then wondered if that might be cool in some manner? Or maybe with certain images?

This thinking of mine now comes full circle with your situation and leads me to ask: were you shooting at a higher ISO and if not, why not try a higher ISO?