Win Portraiture, Noiseware, and Real Grain from Imagenomic
June 23, 2009 | 350 Comments |Add a comment
MCP Actions is excited to announce this “smooth” contest where the lucky winner drawn at random will win Imagenomic Pro Plug-In Suite. The winner will get 3 fabulous products with a $300 retail value: Portraiture 2, Real Grain and Noiseware Professional Plug-In.
To enter the contest, comment directly to the blog answering the following:
- Since shooting digital, what is the worst location you have ever had to shoot in (in terms of low light causing noise)?
- What camera were you using?
- And what ISO were you at? If you are unsure, go look up your EXIF data in Photoshop (FILE – FILE INFO – CAMERA DATA).
- Twitter, post to Facebook, or tell 3 or more photographer friends that you know about this contest so they can enter too.
The winner will be picked at random this coming up Sunday, June 28th so check back.
Here is a little info on each product:
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1. I just had my first wedding this past saturday and I was so excited and had all these awesome ideas for outside and the bride ended up not wanting to go outside at all to take the pics because “it was too hot” so all my plans went downhill at the last minute and had to work with all inside pictures in a dark church (they couldn’t turn up the lights for me at the time) with no windows and a black backround on the stage with all black suites and dresses (except the bride) I was very nervous my shots were going to turn out too noisy. But I guess that’s how you learn- from unexpected situations and new experiences. It was a good challenge for me
2. I was using a Canon Rebel XTi with a (rented) canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L lens.
3. ISO was always between 800 and 1600
4. Posted on my facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Claremore-OK/SC-Photography/75857021262
Thanks so much for this awesome contest! ( keeping my fingers crossed
Thanks for such a great opportunity to win some awesome software! The worst location I have ever shot in was an old chicken feed-barn. I was documenting a farm that had been part of this family for about 125 years, and every barn had interesting yet workable light except for one…the chicken feed-barn. (And there were some great photo opportunities inside this barn with items from 3-4 generations ago.) I was using a Canon 40d at the time and had my ISO setting on 1600. The noise gave a creative aspect to the picture, but it would have been great to have more control at the time I took the pictures. Off to tell three more people… Thanks Jodi!!
I like to think I could better handle the location today, but I took my Canon A520 p&s inside a store in California Adventures. ISO 600. I (thought I)knew enough to turn off my flash. My DD was 3 and tried on all of the princess costumes. She was adorable – and several customers bought the outfits when they saw them on her. Sadly, my pics were very noisy (due to underexposure).
Worse light was my grandfathers ninty-third birthday! Incredibly special. Darkest room I have ever shot in. Nearly impossible to capture what was such a special and momentous occasion! I worked it the best I could though. This software would be well used and much beloved!
OMG I would LOVE to win this!!! I am going to Facebook, Twitter and tell all my friends about this!
Camera used: Canon Rebel XSi
Worst location: Shot a 3 month old in THE darkest apartment I have ever been in! The only light was from a sliding glass door and all of their lights were overhead so couldn’t use any lamp light to help with the ISO factor….. it was a cloudy day too!! BOO!
ISO was around 400……YUCK!!!!
Worst light-first newborn practice shoot at a friend’s house. I was at 1600 for the family shots and couldn’t get my ss up above 1/80 at f4.0. I have a 40D. I would love this software, it would help me tremendously!!
Shooting in a wine cellar was the darkest light (if there is such a thing!) I’ve ever had to deal with. I was shooting with an Olympus E300 at the time and needless to say the images left a lot to be desired with the noise and grain. I think the highest i was able to bump the ISO was about 800 and it really did look BAD! Never mind, i learnt alot from the experience
Thanks for a fantastic blog Jody.
I need these SO badly! How awesome to have this contest! Worst lighting situation was in a nightclub photographing the band, no flash. I used my Nikon D300 at ISO of 2500 for some and also 3500. Great contest!
Oooh, I’d love to win this!
Worst Situation: a client’s house, December in New England (freezing rain/snow outside), low light, and 12 people (incl. 4 kids) in a 10×14 living room, in front of a giant bay window (our ONLY option). I had my D80, and ONLY my 50 f/1.4. ISO 800, shooting RAW, praying for some recovery in pp. Oh, and I shot from the kitchen.
thanks to Beth for FB post~ I’d love to have this!! Worst location: baby nursery with DARK BROWN walls and one window on a rainy day (I am a natural light photographer!) ISO: 640 Camera: Canon 40D Will post to FB next! Thanks
I photograph many low light music events throughout the year. No flash photography is allowed at the shows I photograph. While I love listening to the music and caputuring the mood of the event to a photograph, I dread the work that is involved in reducing the noise in my photos. I feel this software would reduce the amount spent on the computer so I can spend more time in the venues photographing the bands.
I shoot with a Nikon D70s at 1600 ISO. I have tried to lower the ISO – but do not get the results I want.
Thanks for your consideration!
When I first started learning natural light photography it was winter in Ohio. I had a canon rebel xti. Couldn’t go over iso 400 without seeing major grain. Inside in the winter, iso 400 just didn’t cut it.
Martini lounge during a fund raiser for a non-profit organization. Just got my 5D, so I was bumping up to ISOs of 3200 and HI after my speedlight shut don from low batteries and exhaustion.
Like many people, I was shooting a wedding in a dark catholic church with my Canon 40D, which does not handle noise well. I had to bump up my ISO to around 1250. This product would be a huge help.
First wedding ever, dark reception hall, D300 and ISO 1000. Yuck!
Worst ISO was a wedding in Ohio – it was inside a wine cavern, sooo dark! I was shooting a Canon XS at ISO 800 – noise, noise, noise!
Software looks amazing – fingers crossed!
Worst location I have ever had to shoot in was in my house – anywhere; it’s like a cave in here. I use a Nikon D40 which I can’t use past ISO 400 without noise ISO 800 is horrible.
My worst time was in a church. I believe I was shooting at iso 1000 or 1200, with a D200. The pictures were pretty terrible with all the noise! Is that reason enought to upgrade to a new camera?
The worst light I have had to shoot in was when I was second-shooting a wedding… sunset wedding, so it was DARK by the time the outdoor reception began. There were barely any lights, and we were shooting pretty much blind. I was shooting with a Canon 20D and my ISO was on 800 and 1600 (I was changing it around to see if I could salvage anything!). Ugh.
1) my daughter’s last event @ her state track meet. it was 10:15 pm + completely dark. there were lights were on the field, but i wasn’t so it was not enough to illuminate the runners.
2) canon rebel xti
3) 1600
Canon 40D in a house a couple of weeks ago while there was the darkest and scariest thunderstorm outside. I was trying to photograph a 6 month old with ISOs ranging from 800 to 1600.
worst place was a reception hall that had ROSE colored recessed lighting and super low ceilings so that I couldn’t really bounce flash off without blinding the guests. So I shot at 6400 on my Nikon D300, since then I upgraded to the D700. And I twittered
I did a maternity shoot in an old monastary gym. I was only able to use the window light coming from the windows near the ceiling of the gym. I shot at 1600 ISO using a canon rebel XTi. You can’t reshoot a maternity shoot, I was crushed when I blew my favorite photo from the shoot up for my portfolio and saw all the noise.
In a cafe in the middle of winter in the dark gray afternoon of a horrible dark day. I was using the 40D at 1600 ISO. Noiseware saved my life that day.
The worst low lighting, noisy situation that I have had to shoot in was a comedy club – I was shooting the individuals on stage, and they even made a comment about if I could even get a good photo of them, with myself in the dark and them up on stage! I’ve been at a few weddings where the lighting was simply awful (for reasons I can understand as a bride for choice, but not the photographer!) and I’ve had to do quite a bit of pping to try to make the images the best I could! I have a 40D and had to bump my ISO up to about 800 just to get a decent shot… and worry about the noise later.
I’ve seen others’ work with your noisewear and portraiture and simply admire the beauty your software adds!
I’m post #127, I forgot to add, its my birthday on Thursday (the 25th) and if I won it would make it the BEST birthday ever!!
Worst place to shoot was my front room on a SUPER cloudy day. Ugh. 800 ISO on a Canon Digital XTi. It was a black backdrop with a girl in a black leotard to boot.
darkened living room in winter, shooting a newborn. Very low light. Canon 30D. ISO 1600. Off to facebook!
Worst was a newborn on a rainy day in a small 2 bedroom apt. on a black backgroud. My ISO was at 800, on my XT. Couldn’t really take it higher than that. They were horrible. I really need this!
1. One of my little sister’s cheerleading competitions.
2. Nikon D50
3. 1600
worst lighting situation was a newborn in a manufactured home that literally only had 1 window (and it had an awning over it so NO direct light was coming in!). I shot it at ISO of 1600 on my Canon 40D. I have heard these products raved about over and over AND OVER and am jealous everytime I read where one gives this software the kudos for saving their photo!
My house! It’s smaller and not ideal to shoot in. I was taken photos of my friends baby who then pooped all over. Good times. ISO 800. Canon Rebel Xti. I so need this!
The worst location is on the beach when the sun has started to go down. I shot at ISO 800 in my D80 and the noise was awful!!! I would love to see what noiseware can do-thanks for having this contest Jodi!!
Worst was a stinking hot day where it was much too hot to be in the sun, trying to get portraits of a family of 13 – we had to go deep into the shade of the bush to try and avoid everyone melting in the sun.
I was shooting with a Canon 400D at the time…
Iso was cranked to 1600 to keep the shutterspeed up.
My worst low light condition is definitely in my house. Should I be house hunting tomorrow I would quickly rectify the crummy light situation, but I can’t convice my husband to move strictly to get a more well lit home
I have to shoot at around 1600 ISO on my XSi, let me tell you the pictures are noisy!
I love MCP! I tell everyone who will listen how great I think this site is.
The worst location was my niece’s baptism. The church was dark and all I had was my 5D and Tamron. No flash! My ISO was all the way at 1250. It was a disaster.
Overcast wedding shots taken at the (gasp!) local cemetery. I used Photoshop Noise removal 3 times to help me out.
Camera – Canon 40D
ISO – 1000/1250 – if I used 1600 I may as well have not taken any photos at all.
At a wedding reception here in MI., using my Rebel XSI, no flash because I can’t afford a good one yet, and ISO was at the max 1600. This software would be great for me because 95% of the year here I am indoors! michigan doesn’t get much summer! and spring/fall are pretty much non existent! LOL
1. Family pictures a night in a yellow lit kitchen. 2. Canon 5D 3. ISO 1600
I already have noiseware pro but I am in love with portraiture!! Pick me!
My old townhouse had the worst natural light ever… unless it was completely sunny i had to shoot at ISO 1600 and that’s horrible when shooting with my XT.
My worst low light situation was my daughters Christmas concert in the school gym. I was shooting at the time with my Canon Rebel XT and I went up to ISO 400 because I knew that going any higher would be horribly noisy. I have been wanting to get portraiture for so long now, I hope I can win it.
Thanks for all the great contests you put on here.
The worst location I have to shoot in had more to do with the time of day rather than the location itself. While shooting engagement photos for my sister we had the misfortune of only being able to shoot at 3:30pm in February. As we live in Oregon it is rare to have a clear day as this one was, however, in February it is dark by 4:30pm so it was a race against the clock. As time went on I went from shooting at ISO 100, 200, 400, and 800 at this point the photos looked so grainy that I just called it a day and gave up. By the way I have a rebel xti was using a f/1.8 50mm lens. My sister was nice about it but I knew they were clearly not my best work.
Shaun
Wedding this past weekend…low light church…stained glass windows…no flash permitted. I was shooting a Canon 5D with a 28-70 2.8. EXIF was SS40-50 ISO 1250 and I had a Canon 40D with a 70-200 2.8 at 800 ISO and SS40-50.
Restaurant at niece’s first birthday party. There was really bad fluorescent lighting plus pink curtains everywhere causing a color cast. I was using a Nikon D40 so the noise on the pictures were pretty horrid at ISO 1600.
I’ve had to deal with a bunch of yucky ISO incidents, but I think the absolute worse time would have to be when I had to shoot a fast paced rodeo in a big grungy building with horrible lighting. All of my photos were shot at least ISO 800, and the noise was horrible because I was using an old Nikon D70 while my camera was getting repaired. Not a fun editing session!! Although…I hate the noise I get when I go above ISO 400 on my Nikon D200! LOL I would love to win this software, and I love the blog! Spreading the word! Erica
My worst “noisy” place was inside a church taking portraits for a baptismal to discover that my flash was having issues and decided not to work… I was shooting with a D100 at the time at 1000 iso – it just wasn’t a pretty picture with that camera! I now have a D300 and love it so much I rarely use my D2xs backup camera!
The worst location I have ever shot in was an office building a couple wanted me to use for their baby’s newborn pictures. It had great lighting on a normal day because of the huge windows but the day happened to be quite overcast and rather dark so we had to turn on the overhead lighting. Yep, fluorescent lights. Every picture was yellow and noisy. I had to do a whole lot of pp’ing of those to get color casts out of the skin and the noise off of the pictures.
I was using my Nikon D60 and my ISO was actually only set at 200. I was able to compensate with an exposure compensation of +5. I knew that since it was already a dark day, we were indoors and using terrible lighting that if I had my ISO too high they would be terribly noisy (more so than they already were).
Shan
Downtown in an alleyway was the worst “noisy place” for me. I was shooting with my Pentax K10D at ISO 800. Although I get noise with almost anything above 400 with my camera. I feel in love with the software during the trail period and can’t wait until I can be reunited with it!
Since shooting digital, what is the worst location you have ever had to shoot in (in terms of low light causing noise)? Sadly, my home! Trying to capture those adorable toddler moments in the early morning or early evening when there just isn’t enough sun coming through the window. Noisy photos abound in our home, sadly!
What camera were you using? Canon 40D
And what ISO were you at? If you are unsure, go look up your EXIF data in Photoshop (FILE – FILE INFO – CAMERA DATA). ISO 800 (it’s horrible above ISO400 unfortunately!)
High school gyms for wrestling tournaments are the worst! I’ve got a Canon Powershot S1 and S5…S1 handled action shots in this lighting ‘fairly’ well, but the S5 has to go up to ISO 800 to get anything…and it’s very grainy.
I was in a very dark small basement listening to a friends rock and roll band. They had every color of 70′s lights flickering through the air. I pulled out my Canon 5D.. couldn’t resist these old guys playing ZZ Top… Set it to the highest ISO 1600, shot wide open f2.8.. and presto… LOTs and Lots of NOISE. (and it was just from the band). These great shots could have been saved with none other then NOISEWARE from Imagenomic. Portraiture would have helped them look a little younger too…
Set in a botanical garden, heavy foliage coverage made it tough in general then the clouds rolled in
Nikon D80
ISO 800
Lots of noise, your software would be amazing..
retweeting and sharing on facebook
The absolute worst lighting situation I’ve been is was when I was shooting a newborn inside a dark house on a rainy day. I was shooting with my 5D and had to push the ISO all the way up to 1000. Yuck, it was horrible, I hate even thinking about it. All of these products would make such a difference in my photos. Thanks, I am off to tell some friends!
Worst location was at a friend’s house taking pictures of her newborn with my Canon 20D. There was not a single room in the house without clutter and good light. My ISO was 800 and the noise was terrible.
An old Theater with incredibly high ceilings and only colored spot lights on the bride.
My 40d set at 800 ISO
My worst location was my last wedding shoot at the bride’s house. Around 9pm they decided to move the dancing ground to outdoor with very limited light…I am using a Canon 5D for that wedding with 50mm 1.2 lens and ISO of 1200. The picture came out with a lot of noise.
worst light- shooting anything inside our log cottage (cabin) in Northern MI . Canon 5d at 1600 and it’s still too dark. Thanks, Will post to other photographers about this!
I’m a photography student and recently I was shooting in what I thought was great natural light. I was not paying attention to my screen output. In full window light my Canon 40D was jumping up to iso 800. The higher iso made it more difficult to post process. I didn’t realize my mistake until afterwards. From now on I will religiously check my screen output. I would love to benefit from these products.
The worst has to be in my home at night, our lights are soooo bad I am on ISO 1600 with my Rebel XTi. AWFUL noise! Thanks for a great contest, off to post on FB!
The worst light I have ever shot in was an auditorium where I was trying to take pictures of my daughter’s ballet. I was using my Nikon D80. My ISO was on 1600.
It was a nightmare! I was hired to do a wedding and the bride called and said that the hall they rented for the wedding and reception had been painted so that the top half of the walls were white and the bottom were blue and she didn’t want such a terrible background for her images. So they draped the entire place in black!!! It was a night time wedding. I was using a d300, ISO 800 I believe and diffused fill flash when necessary. I hope to never encounter such a thing again lol.
I twittered about this – http://www.twitter.com/BellaValentina
Worst place was the school theatre during a play. No flash allowed. I was shooting with a 30D @ 3200 iso.
I have to say that my worst location was a small church in New Hapshire. Walls were a yellowish cream color, windows were small and stained glass and the church overcompensated by putting some sparse incadescent lights with yellow glass shades. Not only was it dark, but it was hard to get a good white balance even by doing custom WB. It seems that everything had a shade of yellow to it. I was shooting with a Nikon D2x at 800 ISO, more than that, the noise would have been awful. It took a lot of post processing to make the images look decent.
Oh the worst light i have encountered was in my daughters bedroom when i shot with a canon 350d. she looked so angelic sleeping i wanted to capture that moment in time forever. Lets just say it didn’t come out as i would have liked. I would adore this software. Thank heavens for MCP blog!!
Worst place I have shot is in a theater for a Miss NH pageant. No flash allowed. I used my Canon G9 (a great digital camera) and various ISOs to improve noise reduction. But every shot has noise. The images would be great if the noise could be remove. I tried the demo and I know the product could change my image outcome. Please pick me so I can give my pageant girls and their families good and noiseless images. I do the photography voluntarily and to support the girls who are participating to obtain scholarship money for their college education. Another woman helping younger women reach for their education dreams. Please pick me to win .. it will be a win-win result for all of us. Thanks so muchf for offering a chance to win this wonderful product.
I think the wort lighting situation for me was at a formal dinner i was photographing and was asked not to flash during the speaches. I was using my D200 at the time and i varried my ISO during the shots between 800 and 1600 to try and get some decent results. I know there are many situations i could use this software in. :0) Jana
Worst case was inside a duck blind, just before dawn. Trying desperately to document a young mans first duck hunt.. it was also his dogs first hunt.. Sadly this was prior to owning my 5D, I was still using an Xti had the ISO at 800.. then bumped again.. and still fought it madly.. impossible to use any flash etc.. heaven forbid anything startle a duck or a dog.. I shoot lots of hunts ( deer, duck, turkey, hog etc..) at dawn and pre dawn.. I need this!!!
Love your blog! Shared this on facebook and and on a couple of forums 
Thanks for another fun contest Jodi !
Well since shooting digital i went from horrible places to less horrible places and so on
Anyway – latest bad shootout that springs to mind – wedding palace (coincidentally it called “wedding palace #1″, i kid you not) in St. Petersburg, Russia. Place is brilliant, old architecture, and stuff. It also features fiendishly high ceilings (literally – its a palace), golden ornaments on walls, weird shapes of texture, laquered floor. And no flashes during ceremony, of course. So my Nikon D700 was dropped to its knees – ISO 1600/3200 , wide open. Of course to top it – whole place lit with mixture of old style sodium vapor lamps + fluorescent light and – big windows on sides, thankfully somewhat blocked with large white curtains… Ugh. So even with its smashing low-noise sensor – D700 got out with some pretty nasty noise – both colour (mixed low light) and luma (low light in general).
I was so sad last weekend to see my pictures of Eagles from the local zoo were noisy from the lack of light. I was using my rebel xt (need to upgrade) at 400 ISO. I would love some noiseware to fix those images.
It was a baseball diamond at dusk. We had to wait for the kids to stop playing to get on the field and we lost the light. My highest ISO on that shoot was 800 on my Nikon d60.
Our house has wonderful light in the morning, but in the afternoon and evening it is terribly dark. I have to shoot at ISO 1000 with my Canon 40D to get decent photos. I hope I win!!!
At Seaworld in the penguin exhibit. I was shooting with my Nikon D300 and my ISO was 800. Great contest!!
Worst light…? Reception hall in the late evening. Using a Rebel XT, ISO 800 (can you say NOISE?) Imaginomic is the best!
Most recently deep in the shade with a speedlight but outside in full sun. Crazy I know. I have a Canon 20D and it was shot at 400 ISO. I seem to get quite a few noisy shots with this camera.
Need to upgrade or get some software to help!
I was shooting a wedding as a second shooter in a church. It was raining and cloudy and the lighting was so bad! It was dark, but with occassional spots of flourescent light. UGH!!!! I was using my Rebel XT (I recently upgraded to a 5d). My ISO was 800 and sometimes even higher, so you can imagine the grain from it! We weren’t allowed to used flash. I was just so glad that the rain eventually subsided, and we were able to take most of the bridal portraits outdoors!
Lake Powell at dusk with an overcast sky to boot. I needed fast shutter speeds to catch some fun action on the water. I had my ISO cranked to 1600 and the pictures were very noise filled. I was using a Canon 40D.
bridal shower at someone’s home. It was like a cave.
ISO 800 with my Nikon D80. I am still stressin over editing those pics – not done yet!
off to tell peeps about this contest!
Worst ever… recently! Client showed up 35 minutes late to a sunset beach session, the sun had almost completely set, there was ZERO light. I was shooting at ISO 1200, using the 5D and the images were barely salvageable. I freaked! So sad, especially considering we are 6.5 hours from the beach and there’s no “do-over!”
I thought I posted, but I can’t find my post. My worst light is shooting my daughters’ chorus in a dark, high, catholic church with lots of stained glass — 20 kids wearing all sorts of colors. My speedlight doesn’t help much, and I can’t get close, because the audience surrounds them, and I’d be in the way wherever I went. I use a Nikon D40 (someday maybe I can move up!) and shot those at 800, should go higher, but the noise is so bad. I tweeted this.
* Since shooting digital, what is the worst location you have ever had to shoot in (in terms of low light causing noise)? a church in my hometown. it was a dark catholic church and the priest didn’t allow for flashes during the wedding.
* What camera were you using? Canon XT
* And what ISO were you at? If you are unsure, go look up your EXIF data in Photoshop (FILE – FILE INFO – CAMERA DATA). between 800 & 1600
* Twitter, post to Facebook, or tell 3 or more photographer friends that you know about this contest so they can enter too. done! Twitter link: http://twitter.com/OnTheSpotStudio FB Link: http://www.facebook.com/tiffanymwillett?ref=profile
Thanks for the chance!
Worst light ever is in my apartment….I’ve had to crank my Rebel XSI up to 1600 ISO and the noise is horrible. This is such a great contest….love your site!!!
Since shooting digital, what is the worst location you have ever had to shoot in (in terms of low light causing noise)? a tossup between my house and my son’s school auditorium
What camera were you using? Rebel XT
And what ISO were you at? If you are unsure, go look up your EXIF data in Photoshop (FILE – FILE INFO – CAMERA DATA). 1600 of course
The worst light I had to shoot in was the day after I got my 5D! I had been using the Rebel XSi and was so excited to practice with my new camera. That day was super stormy, where the whole house goes dark. I was actually shooting at ISO 1600. I think my kids thought I was crazy taking pictures in the dark! My 5D handled the noise much better than the XSi, but I sure could have benefitted from some Noiseware! Off to post a link on my blog – thanks for a great contest!
My worst case of noise, hands down is from a Tori Amos concert I went to in 2005. I had just started having interest in photography. I knew I was going to need to sneak the camera in, and that flash was not an option and more importantly that even if I could use one, I would just get great shots of the heads in front of me. I was using my first digital camera which was a Nikon Coolpix 5700. I spent the day researching the internet on how to capture these shots. I had never played around with my settings, so this was new to me. The camera data shows the image was ISO 800 71.2 mm 1/15 at f /7.4
I put them on my blog http://carriebassettphotography.blogspot.com/ if anyone wants to see some.
I would love to win this software suite….I simply can not afford it right now!
Golf course, no light from windows, colors of the table cloths were YELLOW AND TEAL!
Brown paneled walls. Teal and Yellow Cast. SO lovely.
ISO 800 and Up.
20D
Worsed location? ~uh, try in an old church with old light fixtures, very low light-the bride getting ready!!!!!.
Shooting with my old FILM Minolta…at ISO 800 film!! This was a couple of years ago, now!
Let me just say one of the worst lighting situations was at a wedding reception in a windowless church cultural hall with almost all the lights down for mood. I tried to turn on some lights, but they were consequently turned back off. I was using my Canon EOS 40D. The ISO varied from 400 to over 3000! Posted to MySpace.
Like a lot of the others on here the worst light was a wedding in a dark church with no windows and low lighting. I was using a Canon 50D, I think the ISO was 1600. This church is a common place for me to shoot in and I would love the noiseware!!
In a big, cold, dark warehouse-like building with just one big door that was closed because it was the darkest, rainiest, coldest day of the spring. Why was I there? I was shooting a great group of kids were showing and selling the steers they had raised at their farms for the past year. I shot pretty much constantly at 1600 with my Canon5D.
worst ever was a theatrical performance – Fuji S2 on a tripod at 400 ISO – oh MAN, the noise was horrible! attempted to go lower than ISO 400, but that just resulted in blurry AND noisy photos, ack!!! (shooting with an S5 nowadays and much happier!) Have heard wonderful things for awhile now about Portraiture and just recently about your Noiseware – would love the chance to discover them for myself!
Shooting with a Fuji S5 in a darkened reception-outside with only lanterns lighting the scene. Very beautiful, but had to shoot at ISO 1600 consistently and occasionally bumped to ISO 3200 to try to stop movement during dancing. No fun at all.
The first wedding I ever shot was under a tent in a backyard – there was a thunderstorm, the sky was darkdarkdark, and the tent the couple chose had thick stripes of navy blue with thin stripes of white. Canon 5D with ISO 1200, baby. (For what it’s worth, I hesitate to do even 800…) Off to Facebook!
1. Home window light facing west – it was around 4pm on a cloudy day.
2. I was using my Canon 30D – which loves noise!!
3. The ISO was around 800.
4. Off to tell all…
Thank you Jodi so much for this opportunity!
Mmmmmm…worst location ever. I would say crammed inside of a grandma’s house – with too many people and very little natural light. I cranked up to 800, but the tungsten interfered too much and of coarse I have learned a little since then!! I currently shoot with a Nikon D300. I need noiseware – my kids are the noisiest things I know(literally)!!
Worst location: The church where my 5 yr olds preschool graduation was held .. super yellow lighting
Iso was : 1800
I was using my canon 40D
This would be fabulous to win !!
Thanks Jodi, off to facebook
a wedding in a church with no windows, could not use flash, did not have ANY lights on…only had a few candles near bride & groom…only had canon 40d and pushed extended ISO to 3200…grain was awful and because it was such low light I was shooting a f2.8…so i ended up with some flare in places i didn’t want any..like the grooms tux-since that wedding i have purchased the 5d mkii…and it is so much better at low light!!! love my new camera!
My worst lighting situation was when I photographed a newborn in my home on a super dark cloudy day using only natural light. The camera was a Canon 40D and the ISO was at 800. The images were sooooo noisy!
I’ll be honest and say that the worst lighting situation I’ve encountered is my own cave er. home. We have small windows only on the front and back of our home.There are no side windows in our home at all. And my Husband won’t put in the french doors like I’ve been begging.
I was and am using a Canon 40d.
a lot of times I’m on H which I believe is 3200.
Oh Imagenomic products, please do come into my life and make it easier!
1. Wedding in a gymnasium. The light was horrible with no windows!! Very yellow.
2. Canon Rebel (first one that came out)
3. 1600 ISO
Worst shooting environment: Dark chapel, late evening in the winter. Bridemaids were in dark green and groomsmen in dark their dark tuxes.
I shot at 800 ISO
using a Canon 40D
Most of the actual wedding was okay, but the pre-wedding shots of the bride took forever to fix!
Would LOVE to have this software!