brian's photowezk

Most people complaint about noise grain when shooting at high ISO. Indeed, noise grain is one of the major problems with high ISO even for DSLR. For compact cameras, one can hardly go beyond ISO200 for a reasonable noise level. Therefore most of us will shunt away from high ISO shooting. But on the flip side, at very low light condition, motion blur kicks in resulting in blurry/unsharp pictures.

During my Taiwan trip, I shoot mostly at ISO500 or above. Even in broad daylight. Reason being, it was cloudy. Throughout my 9 days in Taiwan, the sun was out in full blast only for 2 days. With the sun behind the clouds, considerable amount of light was lost. So in order for me to 'regain' back those light, I had to shoot at ISO500. I was skeptical to shoot at high ISO for, like everybody else, worried about the noise grain which means that I would have to do a lot of post processing later on.



But well, it turns out that the pictures turn out to be pretty clean. In fact, for most of my pictures that were being shot at below ISO1000, I hardly have do noise clean up in photoshop. The end result of high ISO shooting in day light - sharper pictures. I did not have to scarifice my shutter speed for moving objects and so, this means a properly exposed scene (aid by high ISO) and fast shutter speed to 'freeze' moving objects.