And It Was Night

A dragon lantern in Chinatown. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

This was taken some years back. The ISO was inadvertently set to auto, and so it came up to 3200, generating quite a bit of noise – double digit level. I remember the camera was placed on an electrical power box, so I could’ve used a base ISO instead. Only some of the noise was fixed in post as fine details were already beginning to be impacted.

Defiant Dragon

 

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A wooden dragon sculpture sticking out its tongue at visitors in the Cloud Forest. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

This was taken with 1-1/3 stops of underexposure to capture as much details as possible. Shadows and mid-tones were then darkened further in post to highlight the wood textures.