Higher ISO

[tomorrowstreasures]

the little girl was shot at f/4.5, ss of 1/500 70-200mm, f2.8 lens shot at 200 iso 3200

bride and groom was shot at f/5.6 1/250, same lens shot at 70mm, same iso

both were set to auto.

could not upload raw file like i wanted to.:(

that is what i know for my case.

[Mad Aussie]

I find that higher ISO's are acceptable also if the photo is a very busy photo. No large areas of solid colour for instance.

[Travis]

sometimes auto makes bad choices

the little girl could have been shot at 1/125 iso 800 instead of 3200 1/500

since the little girl is the only subject you could have pulled the aperture down to 2.8..

either way here is a sample of the noise reduction in the $79 paint shop pro x2... it would do even better with a higher rez image..

[mindforge]

Looks so waxy, Noise Ninja is the same way. I think I would have to flip a coin between noise or that plastic look.

[Ben H]

I'll echo what Travis said - a better choice of camera settings would have given the same picture with far less noise - but the 40D will give a better noise performance than the 5D anyway.

As for noise removal - he only did that as an example. Like all processing, it's possible to go too far. For me, his example is way too much - it's certainly possible to improve the noise in an image without it being obvious, and if anything, I will stay on the side of underdoing it rather than overdoing it.

[tomorrowstreasures]

lesson learned on this one - the iso was definitely way too high. my excuse is being rushed and relying on auto to make it work. why is it that the 40d would have better noise control than the much more expensive 5d? i won't give up on these those,,,, johnnyray sent me info on some programs that could help - one is by nik. thanks for all of the help!

[Ben H]

The 40d is a later model and uses a newer sensor with better performance.

I also use Nik's dfine for noise removal. It's pretty good.

[tomorrowstreasures]

The 40d is a later model and uses a newer sensor with better performance.

I also use Nik's dfine for noise removal. It's pretty good.

does it look plastic like the one redone here?

[Ben H]

Noise reduction can't perform miracles - all noise reduction will lose detail. The key is to find an acceptable improvement without getting fake.

Here's an example with Nik's Dfine working at about 74% noise reduction (default is 100%)...



Of course, this is a low res image, taken from a compressed jpg and recompressed as a jpg again, so...

This one at 122%

[kat]

Are these programs purchased or downloaded...I didn't know you could do that - now the images of mine that may benefit from this are coming to mind. How much are these?