High ISO Speeds

Here's yet another abandoned house from my abandoned home collection. This photo was taken at sunset. Don't you just love the color of the home (robin's egg blue).

I took this photo at 1000 ISO, that is at a film speed where you can get clear photos in limited light.

Many point-and-shoot cameras are coming with ISO controls. They tout it too, advertising that they have films speeds of up to 3200 ISO.

What they don't tell you is at that film speed, you're going to get tons of noise. Noise happens when you get those tiny multicolored dots in your image. You can really see it if you blow up your photos to full size on your monitor.

To see your photographs at full size, all you do is type in 100 in the bottom left of the window.

By looking at your photos in this way, you'll see all the little aberrations that appear when you print out copies of them.

At any rate about the highest film speed you can go is about 1000 in order to not get much noise.

Some cameras are better than others at not having noise at high ISO speeds. Canon really does a good job. When you take a picture at high ISO speeds with one of their dSLR cameras you get hardly any noise whatsoever, like in this photo above.

Candid Photography on the Highway

On the way back from BlogExpo, I stopped in Kelso, CA to photograph some abandoned properties. Noone was around and there was easy access to the property because it was right off the road.

One usually photographs only the outside of such properties, but the real action is in the inside.

What do you think? Have you ever photographed an abandoned building or house?