I walking back to my car from a night market in central Taiwan. I have my EM5 and 7-14 with me for some wide night city shots, ISO set to 3200 and shutter to 1/40th. Seems to be a good enough middle ground for mixed lighting night shots. Anyway, I glanced down the alley and saw this cat with a bit of backlight and didn't have time to make any camera settings so I took 2 shots.
The original RAW files are underexposed, when pushed up to make a somewhat useable image the noise level is intense and there is significant banding. I like the image a lot so tried to work something out in LR that I could live with, the image above is the result.
It is a gritty, dark and dirty image but that is exactly what the street animals are in the back alleys of the markets here.
The F3 is perfection in photo fun - the size and weight and clack of the shutter, what a blast. It is also making me stop and think and shoot my digital cameras in a non-digital mindset: taking time to get the photo right, the exposure right, the framing right at the time of exposure. Good stuff.