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In near darkness, wanting depth field, set on f11, ISO6400 and 1/6s. Very pleased with this camera. My M system is being severely neglected.

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17 hours ago, JimD said:

 

Q3 43 taken at f/16, 1/15, ISO 3200

 I played with indoor lighting and tried using f/16 to get a totally black background…it worked!

I do not get that. Wat does the aperture have to do with how "black" the background is?

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On my daily commute today I skipped a train and took a walk to catch a glimpse of the beautiful winter morning light in Berlin:

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The day ended with a wonderful sunset over Berlin:

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Five exposures merged in Lightroom

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On 1/11/2025 at 11:30 AM, Cogito said:

This is one fine photograph, if you would be willing to share your post production process on this one, I'd be grateful. Whenever I turn a color portrait into b/w I often get it to where I like but when I look again I always prefer the color version. 

Hi!

I converted it in Lightroom and made the black blacker, the white whiter and gave it a little clarity. I do think I turned the exposure in the background down a bit too. 

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2 hours ago, sswee38823 said:

Hi!

I converted it in Lightroom and made the black blacker, the white whiter and gave it a little clarity. I do think I turned the exposure in the background down a bit too. 

Thanks, Sea

thanks for sharing. would have thought you used the red/blue/green sliders on the b/w image. as I said, beautiful photograph.

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5 hours ago, Patrick NL said:

I do not get that. Wat does the aperture have to do with how "black" the background is?

I don't know for sure.  I'm new to this.  I was thinking that using f/16 would not allow as much light behind the subject...as if the light would fall off behind the subject and would not be captured as much with such a tiny aperture opening.  Maybe I'm wrong.  Am I?  It seemed to work.  When I opened up the aperture, it let much more light in on the subject and also all around it, including the background.  So, I closed it down to f/16, and it worked.  

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1 hour ago, JimD said:

I don't know for sure.  I'm new to this.  I was thinking that using f/16 would not allow as much light behind the subject...as if the light would fall off behind the subject and would not be captured as much with such a tiny aperture opening.  Maybe I'm wrong.  Am I?  It seemed to work.  When I opened up the aperture, it let much more light in on the subject and also all around it, including the background.  So, I closed it down to f/16, and it worked.  

By closing down to f/16 (SS and ISO remaining the same), you will killing the ambient light.  I assume you had to increase the flash to correct the exposure on the hat/gloves/rope.

When using flash, only Aperture and ISO impact the flash.  SS only impacts ambient.

Another way to get the background to go darker, is to move the light and subject further away from it.

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12 hours ago, ggweci said:

By closing down to f/16 (SS and ISO remaining the same), you will killing the ambient light.  I assume you had to increase the flash to correct the exposure on the hat/gloves/rope.

When using flash, only Aperture and ISO impact the flash.  SS only impacts ambient.

Another way to get the background to go darker, is to move the light and subject further away from it.

That it is about flash I did not get from the description.

To get the background dark on such a short distance from the subject that should be properly exposed, the flash should be CLOSER to the subject, not further. Or like ggweci says, move the whole subject and the flash if that is an option. Using ISO 3200 should not be necessary here! 

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New Years Day 2025 in Boston's North End - Boston, MA

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Q3 43 taken at f/16, 1/125, ISO 12500

No flash unit, dark basement, one overhead light bulb, 1 LED flashlight and 1 regular flashlight filtered with a paper towel, both aimed at subject from 5 feet away.

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From my dog walk 

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