Thresholds and Trade-offs
In one important sense, low light photography is not just another situation, or just another themed area of photography. It carries with it a challenge; that in order to work in these lighting conditions you are forfeiting predictability.
The lighting conditions themselves are never quite sufficient to allow the perfect camera settings, so not only are you close to reaching the shooting limits, but you will always have to make technical compromises. If you sacrifice shutter speed, you run the risk of motion blur or camera blur. You can trade this against a number of other things, including aperture, noise from a higher ISO setting, lens focal length, viewpoint, the moment of shooting and more besides. The list of choices ...
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