Warning! Warning! Warning! I love all kinds of music, from ABBA to ZZ Top and almost everything in between. Ok, you’ve been warned, so let’s move on! Today’s shot comes courtesy of… wait for it… Neil Diamond’s Beautiful Noise! I warned you! Anyway, I love that song, and admit it, you do too. And, it it fits nicely with what I want to tell ya’ll today. NOISE (whether in some new music you may never have heard, or thought you’d care to hear, or in a digital photograph) can actually be good. I should note that I am basing this on my own observations when shooting with my Nikon D700, which renders, to my eyes at least, a wonderful, almost organic noise in high ISO images. Take today’s image as an example (only ISO 1100, by the way). I almost feel like I shot this with film, natural, tactile, textured, organic grain! I love it! To help you better see the quality of the noise the D700 produces, I’ve included some tight crops of the photograph below the main picture (don’t ask me if they are 100 % crops, ’cause I still don’t know what that means, though I suppose I should figure that out if I’m post crops on the ‘net. I just cropped it in tight enough to show you the noise. By the way, I shot this on my cluttered study desk, in very low light, using the Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G. Love that lens!
Nikon D700 with Nikkor 50mm f 1.4G, shot at f/1.4, ISO 1100, 1/60 sec.
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