Photography Lessons from a Dark Night

Recently I went to my first Popronde festival as a volunteer photographer. Popronde is a festival of traveling artists in cities all around The Netherlands. It's a unique opportunity for emerging artists to present themselves in various venues like music venues, theaters, cafes, restaurants, libraries and other cultural spots. Being a photographer at an event is demanding enough in itself, and with Popronde there is another factor you need to take into account: the lack of light. All shows take place in the evening, indoors, in dimly lit locations, sometimes with spectacular light shows. This means you have to play around a bit with shutter speed, aperture and especially ISO values. A shutter speed that is too fast lets in too little light, and so does an aperture that is too narrow. But if your ISO is too high, you introduce a lot of noise into your photos. Of course, applications like Adobe Lightroom can denoise your photos, and the AI that's used for this is pretty good. But it's…

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