ISO 12,800 in near darkness.

I got stuck behind a train this morning on the way to work. It was so dark the only part of this train car I could see was the yellow reflective stripes. The sky was a deep purple. Almost black. I decided to test my high iso trick of setting an exposure compensation of +2ev then bringing it back down in post to try to eliminate most of the noise.

This is the after post image. It's noisy but it's much better than before I processed it. The light and shadows are cast by street lights only. I managed this shot hand held at f/8 for 1/4 second. Love that image stabilization!

For sure I would not be taking shots in this manner normally and this is a pretty extreme example. I would much rather get my tripod and use ISO 100. This train was not moving so shutter speed was not an issue.

Chris.