Kevin Wynn | Wedding & Portrait Photographer »

This photo was from a recent trip to Disneyland.  It was taken at an ISO of 12800.  Can you believe it?  12800!  I had taken my walk around 28-135mm lens.  It’s not a very fast lens at all so I knew I wasn’t going to be taking a lot of shots after sunset.  On our way out of the park around 11pm, we saw Minnie Mouse at the end of Main Street.  Well, since it was going to be a posed shot, I thought I’d try the high ISO capability of my camera.  I knew I needed some flash, but I also didn’t want the background to just go pitch black either.  I set my ISO to H1 which enabled it to determine the best high ISO setting possible.  I set my flash to 1/8 power and fired off about 5 shots.  I was simply amazed by the results.  I ran the image through Noise Ninja in Photoshop to clean up as much as the noise as possible.  This isn’t an image I would want to blow up by any means, but it is truly amazing what can be achieved in low light now.