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Recent portrait work: The Bishop of Salisbury


A couple of weeks ago I shot some portraits of The Bishop of Salisbury, Rt Revd Stephen Lake, in the grounds of Salisbury Cathedral. The first few frames were for part of a release to the press along with an extended caption explaining a conference he had hosted that was exploring the relationship between the Church of England and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. I also shot some of the outdoor activities that went along with the event.

The rest of the images of The Bishop were for stock and I really enjoyed shooting them. He and I had met before, we are almost exactly the same age and grew up just a couple of miles from one another and so it is no surprise that we got on pretty well. As we chatted I shot pictures. What you see above is fifteen of the edited frames including a much needed headshot but as I carried on shooting I got closer and closer to what I really wanted to achieve – which is the frame below.
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High ISO fun and games
Some quick tests using different workflows with a low light high-ISO image. ©Neil Turner October 2023

For a very long time I have been an advocate of shooting RAW files and processing them through Adobe Camera RAW. Recently I have been shooting a lot of pictures in dark spaces with poor light and have been regularly using ISOs of 6400 and above. What has shocked me is that my normal workflows have been producing results that I find a bit grainy – even with the superb high-ISO capabilities of the latest Canon R series cameras.

Having edited some of the live jpegs transmitted during events it has become apparent to me that I need to get stuck into some of the latest noise reduction options as well as having a better look at what in-camera processing can do.

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