In my experience, when I try to light a shadowy scene, the dark parts come out noisy. However I watched my new DPs work, and he does the same thing, but there is no noise in black parts, and they are pitch black, but clear, and we both shot at 800 ISO. He says he has not had a problem with noise on the shadows, and does not know what I am doing differently. What am I? My guess is that he has better exposure on the part of the shot, that is actually lit, but that's just a guess and not sure if that's the cause.
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