Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

Photo365-20091224 – Hungry Hungry Duckling, originally uploaded by HokiePerogi.
1/100 sec @ f/1.8, ISO 1600, 50 mm (EF50mm f/1.8 II)

My lovely fiancee helped to create thedconcept for today’s picture.  I wanted to capture the destruction of the ginger bread house.  The concept of a duck eating the house was too funny to pass up when she suggested it.  If you look closely at the left side of the frame, you may also notice a fist punching a hole into the front wall too!

I used the ambient light in the room to capture the picture.  The lighting is far from bright in the dining room, so I had to bump the ISO up to 1600 in order to get an adequate shutter speed. When I shoot with the 50mm f/1.8 lens, I really do miss the image stabilzation feature that I have on my other lenses.  I often find myself having to shoot at high ISO’s even with the aperture wide open at f/1.8.  Maybe we should just get some better lighting in the house.

I was really hoping that the Canon 7D would perform better at high ISO’s then it does.  Unfortunately, Canon decided to go with more mega pixels instead of better low light performance with the 7D.  Do not get me wrong, I still love the 7D body.  The advanced auto focus system and wireless flash control are worth their weight in gold.  I just wish it produced cleaner images at moderate to high ISO’s.