Thanks! I used a bit of LucisArt sculpture mode to sharpen those shots, the first one has also been desaturated. I pretty much apply LucisArt sculpture mode to most of my images instead of unsharp mask now days.
Wish I had focused on the bucket on the bottom shot though..
There are so many good shots being posted here every day it is hard to even keep up with all of them!
This is one of those shots that looks great (to me) on my computer at home, but as soon as I upload it to flickr, the colors look a bit off and the entire image looks somewhat soft to me. It's frustrating, but ohh well!
I don't want to be rude or anything, but I thought this thread was supposed to be about best shots, not "Just some noisy Nikon shots I took" and I'm not only referring to the last photo. I've seen some fantastic shots in the early posts, but lately I've also seen a huge amount of digital crap.
So, I'm advising new posters to browse the first pages of the thread and compare the images there with what they have and then decided if they are worth posting.
Well, pardon me for saying so, but I rather like my shot. It's not just a "noisy shot" in my view. For a manually focused shot at 12,000 ISO in near-darkness, it's pretty good. The only trouble with it is that his face is somewhat out of focus, which is probably inevitable given the depth of field at 1.8. I like the effect of the different colors of light and how it surrounds the guitarist there. Shooting in high ISO wasn't an end to itself but rather a means to one, that being an ISO that gave me enough shutter speed and light to get a series of clear shots.
I've seen some terrific posts lately, just as I've been seeing since I first started posting.
Sorry about that. I didn't notice the ISO was mentioned in your post. Well, while your camera is able to shoot at ISO 12,000, this setting is usually used only in case of emergency, say a dimly lit sports arena, and it can rarely render an excellent shot.
Leoric wrote:
Sorry about that. I didn't notice the ISO was mentioned in your post. Well, while your camera is able to shoot at ISO 12,000, this setting is usually used only in case of emergency, say a dimly lit sports arena, and it can rarely render an excellent shot.
But this is the D700, which is specifically designed to shoot at high ISOs. You work with what you have, and the D700 has a great deal of high ISO ability and dynamic range.
luminosity, is that the 85mm 1.8 ?? the bokeh is nice, and didnt know the 1.8 produced that well a bokeh
It is the 85/1.8 . I think my copy may just be kinder than most 85/1.8's in terms of bokeh. It's not the 1.4., but it's still very good nonetheless.
turtle14 wrote:
This is one of those shots that looks great (to me) on my computer at home, but as soon as I upload it to flickr, the colors look a bit off and the entire image looks somewhat soft to me. It's frustrating, but ohh well!
Looks great to me both artistically and specifically the colors. I am on my laptop though, and I notice that the colors in my shots I processed on my laptop generally look greatly over saturated when viewed on my desktop monitor that is newer and I don't have ATM for processing.
. I always chuckle when i see Carlos. What a character! 
