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[OM] Re: [OT] Canyon 5D at ISO 3200

Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Canyon 5D at ISO 3200
From: Ali Shah <alizookoman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:38:04 -0700 (PDT)
Chuck,

Very nice! This was at the Center for the Arts? That
is a tough place to photgraph. You didnt have to use a
noise reduction software??!  

- Ali




> 
> Having been through it now I wish I had brought a
> monopod which would 
> have helped a bit with camera motion if not subject
> motion.  I think I 
> could have easily rested it on the floor in front of
> my seat. 
> Fortunately, I had an excellent vantage point.  Dead
> center about 5-6 
> rows back.  I ended up shooting throughout the 3
> hour production (yes, 3 
> hours) using only the 5D and Tokina 28-80/2.8. 
> Although the stage was 
> reasonably lit for human vision it still took ISO
> 3200 and f/3.5-4.5 
> (mostly) to get a shutter speed of 1/160 to try to
> stop some motion. 
> This was the first time I've ever taken more than a
> couple test shots at 
> 3200.
> 
> Some surprises.  Although there is modest noise
> visible on the CRT there 
> is essentially zero noise visible on 4x6 prints...
> either those from 
> nearly full size images to those which are cropped
> to about 25%.  That's 
> from my little Epson inkjet.  I've yet to see what
> the lab prints will 
> look like.  Since I'm new to CS3 which I used for
> the conversion it 
> occurred to me afterwards that CS3 might be doing
> some noise reduction. 
>   Sure enough, I checked and saw that everything has
> been converted with 
> a default value of 0 for luminance noise reduction
> and 25 for color. 
> However, moving the sliders around I couldn't see
> any actual change in 
> noise level.  I also sharpened the images in
> PhotoShop so whatever noise 
> is there has also been a bit accentuated from the
> sharpening.
> 
> Although I shot in raw mode I set the camera to auto
> white balance so 
> that an as-shot conversion would give me a starting
> point.  The next 
> surprise was that I made almost no changes in color
> temperature after 
> processing more than 100 images.  I don't know how
> the camera manages to 
> do *white balance* amidst a profusion of colored
> lights but it was rare 
> that I could manually come up with a rendition that
> I liked better. 
> This was especially surprising since I have seen it
> make some not so 
> flattering choices in light which I'd consider much
> less challenging.
> 
> You can have a look here:
>
<http://www.chucknorcutt.com/dance_recital/index.htm>
> Granddaughters are front row center in image 2 and
> front in image 6.  No 
> doubt many could be Moosified but after processing
> 117 images I didn't 
> have the energy.
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 
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