The 25600 was pre flash and only using the 18-105 (can’t remember what zoom it was at) with the aperture fully open
Ah ok, that's not as bad as you think.
2 stops down from ISO25600 is ISO6400. 3 stops down is ISO25600 is ISO3200.
Both more than acceptable to be shooting at with flash. Just realise its going to be a bit more noisy. If you've got Topaz suite, it'll clean them up. Even the latest lightroom AI will clean the noise up but depending who's seeing the photos, most wont even notice the noise.
(Obviously, I'm saying that, I'm shooting Nikon mirrorless full frame now - both handle ISO really well as are full frame sensors. I cant tell you whether the D5500 handles it as well as they do. Have a practice and look at the images on a computer and see if you're happy with the noise!)
The Prom was a week and a bit ago. It was a very fast paced event with a lot of crazy kids and unfortunately forgot most of what you taught me within minutes as I didn’t have much time to think.
The outside photos seemed okay but when we got to the venue, the dark room was a struggle (also some of them were hanging out outside the venue also in daylight).
I had focusing issues (it wouldn’t so I set manually) as at some point I must have set single point AF instead of Auto Area. I don’t know how this happened but after three pints my mind was blank of how to resolve it.
I did bounce the flash backwards although it didn’t seem to give me enough light on occasions, even when I got what I thought what was as acceptable exposure, looking at the photos, the highlights are a bit harsh with not enough diffusion.
I wasn’t happy with the photos at all, with some of the exposures and some blurry due to the AF area. Photoshop and Topaz rescued a few for me.
On the flip side, the Prom organiser and quite a few of the parents gave really nice comments…. ‘told a story of the day’, ‘loved the photos’ ‘fabulous’ etc. …… Like I said, they weren’t expecting much! 😂
The Prom was a week and a bit ago. It was a very fast paced event with a lot of crazy kids and unfortunately forgot most of what you taught me within minutes as I didn’t have much time to think.
The outside photos seemed okay but when we got to the venue, the dark room was a struggle (also some of them were hanging out outside the venue also in daylight).
I had focusing issues (it wouldn’t so I set manually) as at some point I must have set single point AF instead of Auto Area. I don’t know how this happened but after three pints my mind was blank of how to resolve it.
I did bounce the flash backwards although it didn’t seem to give me enough light on occasions, even when I got what I thought what was as acceptable exposure, looking at the photos, the highlights are a bit harsh with not enough diffusion.
I wasn’t happy with the photos at all, with some of the exposures and some blurry due to the AF area. Photoshop and Topaz rescued a few for me.
On the flip side, the Prom organiser and quite a few of the parents gave really nice comments…. ‘told a story of the day’, ‘loved the photos’ ‘fabulous’ etc. …… Like I said, they weren’t expecting much! 😂
Ah, never drink on the job
Ha, I got roped into shooting an impromptu family shoot about 6-7 years ago and I was absolutely smashed. It only dawned on me the day after I looked at the photos that all but 1 of them was out of focus. Have since refrained from all boozing until I've packed all my kit away on wedding days.
At least you gave it a go and really good the organiser and other parents have given you good feedback. At the end of the day, if they are happy, you have to be happy!
Anyone got advice on how to back up photos whilst travelling? I usually use big SD cards and leave them in the camera until I get home, but I've got a longer trip planned where that won't be sufficient and I'd like to have a bit more peace of mind anyway. I don't have a laptop or iPad, and wouldn't really fancy carting one around even if I did have one. I did some research and found what I thought would be the perfect solution, a gizmo called a RavPower FileHub. The enables you to plug an SD card in and back up all files onto a Solid State Drive without the need of a computer to act as an interface. When I tried to buy one though, I found out they'd been discontinued. I know I'm being picky, but I don't fancy buying second hand. Anyone got any solutions?
Anyone got advice on how to back up photos whilst travelling? I usually use big SD cards and leave them in the camera until I get home, but I've got a longer trip planned where that won't be sufficient and I'd like to have a bit more peace of mind anyway. I don't have a laptop or iPad, and wouldn't really fancy carting one around even if I did have one. I did some research and found what I thought would be the perfect solution, a gizmo called a RavPower FileHub. The enables you to plug an SD card in and back up all files onto a Solid State Drive without the need of a computer to act as an interface. When I tried to buy one though, I found out they'd been discontinued. I know I'm being picky, but I don't fancy buying second hand. Anyone got any solutions?
SD card reader for your phone and then just back up straight to the cloud?
Anyone got advice on how to back up photos whilst travelling? I usually use big SD cards and leave them in the camera until I get home, but I've got a longer trip planned where that won't be sufficient and I'd like to have a bit more peace of mind anyway. I don't have a laptop or iPad, and wouldn't really fancy carting one around even if I did have one. I did some research and found what I thought would be the perfect solution, a gizmo called a RavPower FileHub. The enables you to plug an SD card in and back up all files onto a Solid State Drive without the need of a computer to act as an interface. When I tried to buy one though, I found out they'd been discontinued. I know I'm being picky, but I don't fancy buying second hand. Anyone got any solutions?
Honestly, SD cards are as cheap as chips these days, just buy 3-4 more extra cards and keep them safe until you get near a computer.
The last time I looked, there was no cheap option. I did find a device which was effectively a hard drive with a card reader called the Gnarbox but it was ridiculously expensive.
All 3 of my pro camera bodies shoot to two separate memory cards, which are set to back up, so I always have two copies.
I always tend to carry my macbook with me when I'm working, so at the end of a wedding day I literally back up one card to two separate SSDs and then one of them SSDs automatically backs the raws up to my NAS server, which then in turn backs up to the cloud.
I then work off one SSD and the other I dont touch.
Its not fail safe by any means but its worked for me for the last 8-9 years of wedding photography.
I tend to take my Macbook with me when I go on holiday, as I just know I'll end up taking a picture which I want finished there and then and I'm not a patient person to wait 2-3 weeks to edit a photo.
The new iPad Pros take USB-C (my old one is lightning and isn't quick enough) and you can plug a SSD straight into it, so as long as you've got an iPad card reader, you can transfer files from card to ipad to SSD. I'm sorely tempted to buy a new one as my current one is 7 years old now but its a lot of money just to edit photos on when I've got a perfectly good macbook to do exactly the same thing.
Thanks JohnBoy. Yes, I think my solution may well be around SD cards. Like you, my bodies have two slots on them. I may, for my own sanity, have to start being more restrictive with the shots I take rather than always using the 10fps burst mode. I do like the idea of that bit of extra security by having everything backed up though, so maybe I'd be better just duplicating everything in camera and then storing the cards in two different places for piece of mind.
I did look at Gnarbox, but as well a being pricey like you said, the customer reviews didn't look very great. I see WD have a Passport with an integrated reader, but that looks like extortionate prices for products with less than 1tb of memory; I don't think they have any large ones with a reader and even if they did, I couldn't afford them.
I'm not tempted by the MacBook or iMac route. I have Lightroom on my phone and can upload shots to there via the camera's wifi if there's something I can't wait to share. I'm more interested in bulk protecting everything.
Sounds like a good solution @Leeds_Addick but for one thing, I typically take 2000 shots a day when I'm birding. I think my phone might explode.
You could go straight from SD card to cloud without storing on your phone in between. 2TB of iCloud storage is £9 a month - assume you just need this whilst you're away so you can do a physical backup when home then this is the cheapest option too (as long as you can rely on access to decent wifi I suppose)
Thanks JohnBoy. Yes, I think my solution may well be around SD cards. Like you, my bodies have two slots on them. I may, for my own sanity, have to start being more restrictive with the shots I take rather than always using the 10fps burst mode. I do like the idea of that bit of extra security by having everything backed up though, so maybe I'd be better just duplicating everything in camera and then storing the cards in two different places for piece of mind.
I did look at Gnarbox, but as well a being pricey like you said, the customer reviews didn't look very great. I see WD have a Passport with an integrated reader, but that looks like extortionate prices for products with less than 1tb of memory; I don't think they have any large ones with a reader and even if they did, I couldn't afford them.
I'm not tempted by the MacBook or iMac route. I have Lightroom on my phone and can upload shots to there via the camera's wifi if there's something I can't wait to share. I'm more interested in bulk protecting everything.
Cheers!
I think I read (yesterday, after being on this thread) the company behind Gnarbox has gone bust in the last 18 months so there's no longer any support for the hardware - so definitely best to avoid.
Sounds like a good solution @Leeds_Addick but for one thing, I typically take 2000 shots a day when I'm birding. I think my phone might explode.
You could go straight from SD card to cloud without storing on your phone in between. 2TB of iCloud storage is £9 a month - assume you just need this whilst you're away so you can do a physical backup when home then this is the cheapest option too (as long as you can rely on access to decent wifi I suppose)
Hmm, thats interesting if it actually works. I guess the sticking point would be the upload speeds. Anything I shoot on my iPhone goes straight to iCloud and it takes an absolute eternity some days for the photos to sync between devices.
Thanks JohnBoy. Yes, I think my solution may well be around SD cards. Like you, my bodies have two slots on them. I may, for my own sanity, have to start being more restrictive with the shots I take rather than always using the 10fps burst mode. I do like the idea of that bit of extra security by having everything backed up though, so maybe I'd be better just duplicating everything in camera and then storing the cards in two different places for piece of mind.
I did look at Gnarbox, but as well a being pricey like you said, the customer reviews didn't look very great. I see WD have a Passport with an integrated reader, but that looks like extortionate prices for products with less than 1tb of memory; I don't think they have any large ones with a reader and even if they did, I couldn't afford them.
I'm not tempted by the MacBook or iMac route. I have Lightroom on my phone and can upload shots to there via the camera's wifi if there's something I can't wait to share. I'm more interested in bulk protecting everything.
Cheers!
I think I read (yesterday, after being on this thread) the company behind Gnarbox has gone bust in the last 18 months so there's no longer any support for the hardware - so definitely best to avoid.
Sounds like a good solution @Leeds_Addick but for one thing, I typically take 2000 shots a day when I'm birding. I think my phone might explode.
You could go straight from SD card to cloud without storing on your phone in between. 2TB of iCloud storage is £9 a month - assume you just need this whilst you're away so you can do a physical backup when home then this is the cheapest option too (as long as you can rely on access to decent wifi I suppose)
Hmm, thats interesting if it actually works. I guess the sticking point would be the upload speeds. Anything I shoot on my iPhone goes straight to iCloud and it takes an absolute eternity some days for the photos to sync between devices.
That's where I'm at with it. I think if I were a sensible tourist and just took a few landscapes, sunsets and selfies, that would be the solution I'd go for. Most of my shots are wildlife and most of those are taken in bursts where there are a dozen or more very similar shots and I'll be looking to select just one from a series (and I'm doing this all day). I think I'd break the internet with the amount of wastage I'd be uploading.
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2 stops down from ISO25600 is ISO6400.
3 stops down is ISO25600 is ISO3200.
Both more than acceptable to be shooting at with flash. Just realise its going to be a bit more noisy. If you've got Topaz suite, it'll clean them up. Even the latest lightroom AI will clean the noise up but depending who's seeing the photos, most wont even notice the noise.
(Obviously, I'm saying that, I'm shooting Nikon mirrorless full frame now - both handle ISO really well as are full frame sensors. I cant tell you whether the D5500 handles it as well as they do. Have a practice and look at the images on a computer and see if you're happy with the noise!)
The Prom was a week and a bit ago. It was a very fast paced event with a lot of crazy kids and unfortunately forgot most of what you taught me within minutes as I didn’t have much time to think.
The outside photos seemed okay but when we got to the venue, the dark room was a struggle (also some of them were hanging out outside the venue also in daylight).
I had focusing issues (it wouldn’t so I set manually) as at some point I must have set single point AF instead of Auto Area. I don’t know how this happened but after three pints my mind was blank of how to resolve it.
I did bounce the flash backwards although it didn’t seem to give me enough light on occasions, even when I got what I thought what was as acceptable exposure, looking at the photos, the highlights are a bit harsh with not enough diffusion.
I wasn’t happy with the photos at all, with some of the exposures and some blurry due to the AF area. Photoshop and Topaz rescued a few for me.
On the flip side, the Prom organiser and quite a few of the parents gave really nice comments…. ‘told a story of the day’, ‘loved the photos’ ‘fabulous’ etc. …… Like I said, they weren’t expecting much! 😂
Ha, I got roped into shooting an impromptu family shoot about 6-7 years ago and I was absolutely smashed. It only dawned on me the day after I looked at the photos that all but 1 of them was out of focus. Have since refrained from all boozing until I've packed all my kit away on wedding days.
At least you gave it a go and really good the organiser and other parents have given you good feedback.
At the end of the day, if they are happy, you have to be happy!
The last time I looked, there was no cheap option. I did find a device which was effectively a hard drive with a card reader called the Gnarbox but it was ridiculously expensive.
All 3 of my pro camera bodies shoot to two separate memory cards, which are set to back up, so I always have two copies.
I always tend to carry my macbook with me when I'm working, so at the end of a wedding day I literally back up one card to two separate SSDs and then one of them SSDs automatically backs the raws up to my NAS server, which then in turn backs up to the cloud.
I then work off one SSD and the other I dont touch.
Its not fail safe by any means but its worked for me for the last 8-9 years of wedding photography.
I tend to take my Macbook with me when I go on holiday, as I just know I'll end up taking a picture which I want finished there and then and I'm not a patient person to wait 2-3 weeks to edit a photo.
The new iPad Pros take USB-C (my old one is lightning and isn't quick enough) and you can plug a SSD straight into it, so as long as you've got an iPad card reader, you can transfer files from card to ipad to SSD. I'm sorely tempted to buy a new one as my current one is 7 years old now but its a lot of money just to edit photos on when I've got a perfectly good macbook to do exactly the same thing.
I did look at Gnarbox, but as well a being pricey like you said, the customer reviews didn't look very great. I see WD have a Passport with an integrated reader, but that looks like extortionate prices for products with less than 1tb of memory; I don't think they have any large ones with a reader and even if they did, I couldn't afford them.
I'm not tempted by the MacBook or iMac route. I have Lightroom on my phone and can upload shots to there via the camera's wifi if there's something I can't wait to share. I'm more interested in bulk protecting everything.
Cheers!
Hmm, thats interesting if it actually works. I guess the sticking point would be the upload speeds. Anything I shoot on my iPhone goes straight to iCloud and it takes an absolute eternity some days for the photos to sync between devices.