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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