Grainy/noisy blues

littlemt

New member
Hi everyone,

My pictures seem to have a lot of noise and is grainy. It's not as bad when outdoors, but to me it seems prominent indoors.

Do you all have tips on what I am doing wrong.

ISO 800
f/4.9

Thanks in advance nikonites!!


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Bikerbrent

Senior Member
Welcome aboard. Enjoy the ride.
We look forward to seeing more posts and samples of your work.

ISO 800 is pretty high. Try some shots at a lower ISO and see if they don't improve.
 

pforsell

Senior Member
Hi everyone,

My pictures seem to have a lot of noise and is grainy. It's not as bad when outdoors, but to me it seems prominent indoors.

Do you all have tips on what I am doing wrong.

ISO 800
f/4.9

Thanks in advance nikonites!!


dsc_6396.jpg


Faster lens? Tripod? Vibration Reduction lens? Extra light?

The biggest thing that affects image noise is exposure -- i.e. aperture, shutter speed and lighting. Larger aperture and longer shutter speed let more light onto the sensor and directly reduce image noise.

In most cameras setting higher ISO also reduces read noise, but unfortunately not with D7000 which almost ISOless, so that doesn't help much. With my D5 for example the ISO setting 6400 is the least noisy.

Indoor lighting (tungsten, halogen, LED) lack blue light and cause extremely weak and noisy blue channel. The difference can be 2 or even 3 stops when compared to outdoors. If you can add light when inside, that will help tremendously.
 

hark

Administrator
Staff member
Super Mod
Contributor
Are you doing any post processing? If so, be sure to set your Color (Noise Reduction) which is found under Noise Reduction in either Lightroom or Camera RAW. It isn't the same thing as Luminance. It specifically helps to alleviate noise within colored areas of your images.
 

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
Hi everyone,

My pictures seem to have a lot of noise and is grainy. It's not as bad when outdoors, but to me it seems prominent indoors.

Do you all have tips on what I am doing wrong.

ISO 800
f/4.9

Thanks in advance nikonites!!


dsc_6396.jpg
Putting more light on the subject is the simple answer bounce flash, for instance. In lieu of that, processing can help:
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