I prefer the re-do. You've significantly reduced the sky noise yet avoided a sharp outline of the moon area. I see a tiny bit of the original noise between the trees. Something not everyone would notice.
Jack --- On Sat, 5/29/10, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > From: frank theriault <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO - Moonrise (sans bruit) > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, May 29, 2010, 7:25 AM > The majority of those commenting on > my Moonrise PESO from yesterday > commented on the noise. I use GIMP for processing, so > de-noising is > not like PS or Noise Ninja (which doesn't seem to have a > plug-in for > GIMP), but I did my best with what I have and came up with > this: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/moonrise-sans-bruit.html > > For purposes of comparison, here's the original: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/moon-rising.html > > I have to admit I prefer the noisy version (sort of > impressionistic to > my eye) but I'm curious to see if any of you feel > differently. > > thanks, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri > Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

