Thanksgiving Photos
by Josh Staiger
My family and I spent Thanksgiving at my uncle's restaurant, which he closed down for the day for our benefit.
More photos here.
If it seems like I do nothing but take photos nowadays, it's because I do nothing but take photos nowadays.
For Photography Nerds (and wannabe nerds)
If you're into digital photography, the Photokit Sharpener and Noise Ninja plugins for Adobe Photoshop completely rock out.
Noise Ninja in particular was especially helpful for this project. All the images above were taken using a slow lens (roughly f/4.0) under poor indoor lighting conditions.
In order to avoid using the flash and minimize the effects of camera shake, I had to push my ISO up to 1600. This increases the sensitivity of the camera sensor, allowing it to capture an image using less light, but the tradeoff is a noisier image.
Thanks to the engineers at Picture Code, we can do things like pump up the ISO and count on the algorithms in Noise Ninja to remove much of the noise during post processing.