While my engineers are dealing with ISO 26262 I’m wrestling with another ISO in photography.
Famed economist and American philosopher Thomas Sowell once said life is about trade-offs. One of his favorite hobbies is photography because there are trade-offs between shutter speed, aperture, and iso. There’s no perfect picture there’s just a balance between the three.
I’ve been learning that lesson more and more in the last 3 months as I’ve been on various jobs with photography and videography. Each of these challenging lighting situations.
And just when I think I have everything set to the histogram I get my footage back and it looks like absolute garbage. And so lately I’ve been second-guessing myself as to whether to manually set the ISO or to just let it go auto.
But I’ve had times in my life where auto ISO can sometimes lead to the camera setting it too high and I get too much artifacting.
So just like engineers who have ever-changing environments, artists also are moving between flexible and changing lighting situations and must adapt to meet the demands of the job.
