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I_Am_Wrong



Joined: 14 Sep 2004
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:31 pm    Post subject: low light photography. Reply with quote

When I take digital photos in low light (ie. concerts) my pictures are turning out with white blemish dots all over them.

I got my iso set to it's highest (400), I'm using a slow shutter speed and I have the aperture set to auto. I'm taking close pictures with a high flash setting. The pictures are nice except for the white blemishes. These blemishes dont' show up under normal lighting conditions. Anyone know what's up?
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gdimension



Joined: 05 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do you have a polarizing or UV filter on (or any other, for that matter...)?

They do weird things in low light, methinks.
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The Lemon



Joined: 11 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:53 am    Post subject: Re: low light photography. Reply with quote

I_Am_Wrong wrote:
When I take digital photos in low light (ie. concerts) my pictures are turning out with white blemish dots all over them.

I got my iso set to it's highest (400), I'm using a slow shutter speed and I have the aperture set to auto. I'm taking close pictures with a high flash setting. The pictures are nice except for the white blemishes. These blemishes dont' show up under normal lighting conditions. Anyone know what's up?

Hot pixels.
Some cameras have a feature in their software to identify their CCD's hot pixels and then deal with them. This is not common, though.

If the pixels are appearing in images at normal lighting/normal speeds, you probably have a defective camera. But it's normal at ISO 400 in a long exposure with dark lighting for them to appear. Take any digital camera with manual shutter speed, turn the flash off and let it do a 2 second exposure in a closet, and the resulting image will look like a photo of a starry sky.
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