Next one up. This time, it’s the win­dow shades of our guest room.

Oh boy, what did I do with this image? Well, first of all I cranked up most of the sliders I could find in Light­Room, I boos­ted the sat­ur­a­tion and sharpened the hell out of things. That’s how I got this very strong chroma noise. It’s the noise that is pro­duced by the sensor (the pic­ture was shot in pretty dark con­di­tions at ISO 3200, and Sony cam­eras are still any­t­th­ing but fam­ous for their noise per­form­ance).

Apart from that I really messed around with the col­our sliders as well, sat­ur­at­ing this, desat­ur­at­ing that…

Some­thing that’s quite inter­est­ing is the fact that, as I said, it was rather dark when I took the photo. But with ISO 3200 + wide open ƒ/1.8 + 1/​15 s expos­ure I even­tu­ally got the bright­ness I wanted. I didn’t use a tri­pod (too lazy), but instead relied on the in-​body sta­bil­isa­tion of my cam­era (some­thing very use­ful to have — and unique to the Sony D-​SLRs, at least when it comes to full frame sensors). As you can see it worked very well — this is the only shot I took (no burst-​trick this time).