Project: Night Light

These images were taken in my bedroom at about 11pm.

All where photographed in low light produced by a small lamp.

Equipment was a Canon DSLR, 50mm lens.

Photographed at 1/60 sec., F-1.8 and ISO 1600.

I prefer to photograph with out a tripod and as such in low light situations such as these my best alternative was to jump to a higher ISO. However, this does come with consequences. The higher the ISO the more grain (pixels) you see in the image. That means that these images are not a good image for large prints (ie: 16x20 or larger). It is best to photograph in the lower ISO settings such as 100 or 200. You will get the highest quality image by doing this but you must compensate by adding more light to your subject.