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<blockquote data-quote="J-see" data-source="post: 378097" data-attributes="member: 31330">You're right in that. I had to delete reasonable shots only because when cropping, I could not recover the detail.Yet often even when looking bad at first it still is usable. That B&amp;W shot I took today was 3200 ISO and one stop underexposed. In the light I had I barely reached 1/80s even with those settings. When I looked at it, the dark parts were pretty noisy and I feared I had to kill the shot. But with some noise reduction and sharpening using the mask, tweaked detail and pixel settings, I could fix most. I also brushed in some exposure changes here and there to lighten up certain parts. That too often makes noise less visible.The problem with noise and sharpening in LR is that when we use the sliders, they can do a good job for the one shot but don't work well for the other. The noise filter blurs and in that can compromise sharpening. Even when using a mask, they work indiscriminately. You fix one part at the expense of another. When using the brush, you can address every part individually. You sharpen what needs to be sharpened and blur what needs to be blurred. It won't help us recover detail that is lost but when it's merely obscured, it works fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="J-see, post: 378097, member: 31330"] You're right in that. I had to delete reasonable shots only because when cropping, I could not recover the detail. Yet often even when looking bad at first it still is usable. That B&W shot I took today was 3200 ISO and one stop underexposed. In the light I had I barely reached 1/80s even with those settings. When I looked at it, the dark parts were pretty noisy and I feared I had to kill the shot. But with some noise reduction and sharpening using the mask, tweaked detail and pixel settings, I could fix most. I also brushed in some exposure changes here and there to lighten up certain parts. That too often makes noise less visible. The problem with noise and sharpening in LR is that when we use the sliders, they can do a good job for the one shot but don't work well for the other. The noise filter blurs and in that can compromise sharpening. Even when using a mask, they work indiscriminately. You fix one part at the expense of another. When using the brush, you can address every part individually. You sharpen what needs to be sharpened and blur what needs to be blurred. It won't help us recover detail that is lost but when it's merely obscured, it works fine. [/QUOTE]

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