I actually prefer the noisy original. It almost looks like the noise is supposed to be there, while the second one looks like you are unsuccessfully trying to cover it up.
I've heard good things about the wavelet noise reduction in dcraw: http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Guide.html On May 29, 2010, at 7:25 AM, frank theriault wrote: > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
