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Antiques Fair at Ingliston, Edinburgh, with TV Bargain Hunt gang
This antiques & collectors fair happens four times a year at Ingiston. This shot was taken on Sunday 10th Nov 2013.
www.b2bevents.info/edinburgh_antiques_dealers.html
A surprising number of people think this event takes place in the open. As you can see, it's in a large covered arena, the Lowland Hall of the Royal Highlenad Centre, which while a bit chilly at the start with an outside temperature below zero, soon warmed up.
Tim Wonnacott is back view in a dark suit at the right hand edge talking to one of the TV crew. There's a little stand in front of him with some antique thingies on it. I was chumming a friend and passing the time trying out this kind of high & wide perspective shot of the whole place. With the camera high up on a hand held monopod I couldn't use long exposures. Because I wanted good detail right out to the edges (if possible :-) of a very wide 8mm lens I was using an aperture of f8. Which meant an ISO of 3200. And as it turned out there image contained such a high dynamic range that I had to bring up the shadows a lot. Which meant magnifying the usual ISO 3200 image noise even more.
I found the best way of handling this very high dynamic range and quite nasty noise without losing too much detail to be using the manual controls on the Dyamic Range Optimiser in Sony's IDC RAW converter, plus having the noise reduction turned off, and the sharpening turned off, but the noise (& detail) threshold turned to its lowest. That preserves maximum detail, plus all the noise. The point is that Sony's IDC (or in-camera jpeg) noise reducer isn't the best, and the IDC sharpener, while fairly good, sharpens noise as well as detail. Most, perhaps almost all, sharpeners sharpen noise as well as detail. So I kept all the noise and all the detail in, and did both noise reduction and sharpening in Neat Image. That program has a very adaptable controllable sharpener which is quite good at sharpening noise rather less than detail. To best preserve detail I do strong colour noise suppression and weaker luminance noise suppression which leaves some noise in. A final careful reduction of image size by 67% weeds out a lot of the residual noise while losing very little detail.
Quite good results under the unfavourable circumstances I think. And as usual with a near corner interior shot at the wide end of the 8-16mm you can see four walls.
Here's a closer shot of Tim Wonnacot at that location:
Tim Wonnacott & Bargain Hunt at Ingliston Antique Fair
Original: DSC06165RW_ntXX
Antiques Fair at Ingliston, Edinburgh, with TV Bargain Hunt gang
This antiques & collectors fair happens four times a year at Ingiston. This shot was taken on Sunday 10th Nov 2013.
www.b2bevents.info/edinburgh_antiques_dealers.html
A surprising number of people think this event takes place in the open. As you can see, it's in a large covered arena, the Lowland Hall of the Royal Highlenad Centre, which while a bit chilly at the start with an outside temperature below zero, soon warmed up.
Tim Wonnacott is back view in a dark suit at the right hand edge talking to one of the TV crew. There's a little stand in front of him with some antique thingies on it. I was chumming a friend and passing the time trying out this kind of high & wide perspective shot of the whole place. With the camera high up on a hand held monopod I couldn't use long exposures. Because I wanted good detail right out to the edges (if possible :-) of a very wide 8mm lens I was using an aperture of f8. Which meant an ISO of 3200. And as it turned out there image contained such a high dynamic range that I had to bring up the shadows a lot. Which meant magnifying the usual ISO 3200 image noise even more.
I found the best way of handling this very high dynamic range and quite nasty noise without losing too much detail to be using the manual controls on the Dyamic Range Optimiser in Sony's IDC RAW converter, plus having the noise reduction turned off, and the sharpening turned off, but the noise (& detail) threshold turned to its lowest. That preserves maximum detail, plus all the noise. The point is that Sony's IDC (or in-camera jpeg) noise reducer isn't the best, and the IDC sharpener, while fairly good, sharpens noise as well as detail. Most, perhaps almost all, sharpeners sharpen noise as well as detail. So I kept all the noise and all the detail in, and did both noise reduction and sharpening in Neat Image. That program has a very adaptable controllable sharpener which is quite good at sharpening noise rather less than detail. To best preserve detail I do strong colour noise suppression and weaker luminance noise suppression which leaves some noise in. A final careful reduction of image size by 67% weeds out a lot of the residual noise while losing very little detail.
Quite good results under the unfavourable circumstances I think. And as usual with a near corner interior shot at the wide end of the 8-16mm you can see four walls.
Here's a closer shot of Tim Wonnacot at that location:
Tim Wonnacott & Bargain Hunt at Ingliston Antique Fair
Original: DSC06165RW_ntXX