pushing my camera

[k45]

I played around this evening with pushing my camera in very low light, to get a feel for what my limits are without use of a tripod or flash. I made this photo of my dog:

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[lynnivere]

OH.. beautiful Sam!

[kaosfere]

That's pretty sweet, dude.

Did you actually manage to hand-hold for 1/4s?

Also, how'd you do your grayscale conversion? Just a desaturate, or playing with color channels?

What gear you got now? Still the Rebel? (I'd look at your EXIF tags, but I'm lazy. :P)

[k45]

Thanks :)

Yes, laying with my elbows on the ground for stability.

For this one I just used the black-and-white button in iPhoto.

I've just upgraded to a Rebel XT, hence the low number in the image filename.