From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 2)
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Assess your camera’s high ISO options
From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 2)
Assess your camera’s high ISO options
- The ability to change ISO from shot to shot is one of the great boons of digital photography. When you're shooting with film, you choose an ISO when you buy a roll of film and you're stuck with it for the duration of the roll. As you've hopefully seen by now, being able to shift your ISO at any time affords you all sorts of flexibility. For example, when shooting in low light, an increase in ISO can allow you to keep your shutter speed at a more usable speed. However, as you might have already experienced, shooting at higher ISOs means images with more visible noise in them. Noise in a digital photo usually comes in two flavors. Luminance noise, which looks like a speckled pattern, and chrominance noise, which appears as colored splotches. Of the two, luminance noise is the least troublesome and can actually be attractive because it often looks like film grain. Chrominance noise is never attractive, as far as I'm concerned. It makes your images look like they were captured with a…
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