Low Light on the River Thames

[ChrisH]

My Christmas present to myself this year is a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM lens. This arrived at the beginning of December and has so far lived up to its fine reputation.

Here are two images that were made in low light, combining the EF 24-105 lens with a Canon 6D camera.

All Saints Church from Marlow Bridge at Twilight

Both images were possible by use of the extensive ISO range of the Canon 6D and the high quality glass of the EF 24-105 lens.

River Mooring in Silhouett

This package now offers new opportunities to explore low light level photography. Because of bad weather I have not been able to try out the full extent of the lens’s capabilities but look forward to doing so in the New Year

[Shadowman]

Nicely done on both.

[Ziggy]

Looks to be working well.

[rtbaum]

Fun playing with a new lens.....ain't it! Have fun.

[Wavelength]

Excellent

[ChrisH]

Thanks for all your kind comments

[MrB]

These are two nice photos of lovely scenes and, of course, you as the photographer have chosen to present them as they are and as you wish.

The first is rather too bright for me, looking as though the exposure has produced almost a daylight shot. It doesn't really need "the extensive ISO range of the Canon 6D" here - it would appear more like twilight (as in the 2nd image), and still have lots of colour and detail in the bridge and the church, if the same aperture and shutter speed had been used at around ISO 200 instead of 640.

The second shot is also potentially one of those "opportunities to explore low light level photography". The 6D has most effectively captured a lot of colour and detail in the shadow areas, and particularly in the foreground of this shot, which a bit of fill-light in processing would bring out quite clearly, to bring more range and depth into the image.

Cheers.
Philip

[DanK]

Christopher,

Enjoy the lens. It's a very nice one, IMHO. Mine is my walk-around on my FF camera. It does vignette at short focal lengths, but it is easy to correct this in postprocessing when it bothers you.

Re low-light photography: this can mean different things. In some cases, this means boosting ISO to keep shutter speeds fast enough for hand-held photography or to avoid blur from subject motion. In other cases, it refers to long-exposure work. It's for the first that the 6D really stands out from the competition (although it is very good for the latter as well). You'll start leaving some of the competition behind once you get above ISO 800, I suspect.

Dan