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Effective noise reduction - How do you do it?
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<blockquote data-quote="SteveH" data-source="post: 386296" data-attributes="member: 9252"><p>Hi All,</p><p>I have always struggled a bit with noise reduction - It seems like guess work to me!</p><p>Last night I was shooting a school nativity, and while I arranged with the school for the main shoot to be at the dressed rehearsal where I could move around freely, I still took some shots "On the night" to make sure everything was covered, including the proud parents etc.</p><p></p><p>Now just to set the scene a little, the play was in York Minster, a huge cathedral (Which are never brightly lit) and it was also at night. This left me with some shots being taken with ISO up as high as 6400 - Those with D4's etc will see no problem with this, but I have a D7100 and I treat ISO3000 as my limit as I find noise reduction pretty baffling. The rehearsal was still in the Minster, but during the day & with the lights a little higher.</p><p></p><p>Obviously I can't post shots of the school play, but here is a shot I took when I arrived to see how the light was....</p><p><img src="http://gallery.nikonites.com/gallery/files/9/2/5/2/dsc_7079.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>This shot has no sharpening or noise reduction (In camera NR was set to "High")</p><p></p><p></p><p>My question is how do you go about sharpening and reducing noise while maintaining a reasonable level of detail? The shots I have of some of the audience are a problem, as they were in very bad light, and when I do noise reduction on them, they end up looking like they are wax works! I use either LR or Nik Tools' DFine to do the reduction, and get very mixed results.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Here's a link to the RAW file for the shot above, if anyone wants to play - <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/v8e1uycne7gml2z/DSC_7079.NEF?dl=0" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/v8e1uycne7gml2z/DSC_7079.NEF?dl=0</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteveH, post: 386296, member: 9252"] Hi All, I have always struggled a bit with noise reduction - It seems like guess work to me! Last night I was shooting a school nativity, and while I arranged with the school for the main shoot to be at the dressed rehearsal where I could move around freely, I still took some shots "On the night" to make sure everything was covered, including the proud parents etc. Now just to set the scene a little, the play was in York Minster, a huge cathedral (Which are never brightly lit) and it was also at night. This left me with some shots being taken with ISO up as high as 6400 - Those with D4's etc will see no problem with this, but I have a D7100 and I treat ISO3000 as my limit as I find noise reduction pretty baffling. The rehearsal was still in the Minster, but during the day & with the lights a little higher. Obviously I can't post shots of the school play, but here is a shot I took when I arrived to see how the light was.... [IMG]http://gallery.nikonites.com/gallery/files/9/2/5/2/dsc_7079.jpg[/IMG] This shot has no sharpening or noise reduction (In camera NR was set to "High") My question is how do you go about sharpening and reducing noise while maintaining a reasonable level of detail? The shots I have of some of the audience are a problem, as they were in very bad light, and when I do noise reduction on them, they end up looking like they are wax works! I use either LR or Nik Tools' DFine to do the reduction, and get very mixed results. Here's a link to the RAW file for the shot above, if anyone wants to play - [URL]https://www.dropbox.com/s/v8e1uycne7gml2z/DSC_7079.NEF?dl=0[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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