On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Collin Brendemuehl <[email protected]> wrote: >>Great stuff, Collin. These look excellent. >> >>I noticed a surprising amount of colour noise in #2 though, easily >>seen in the darks and even the darker mid-tones. Are you employing any >>NR at all? It looks like what I see when shooting RAW at ISO 400 >>without enabling any colour NR in Lightroom. > > Thanks. > I'm just shooting straight jpg @ iso400 and adding some contrast and shadow > lightening in PSE10. > I wasn't too worried about noise artifacts since these are web-bound, in a > reduced size. > Other than perhaps dropping to ISO200, any other thoughts? > > Sincerely, > > Collin Brendemuehl > "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" > -- Jim Elliott
If it were me, I'd shoot RAW and finalize in and export from Lightroom. Lr can handle the NR, the contrast and shadows tweak, plus final sharpening etc. all in one. It can even do all the steps automatically during image import. For your present workflow, besides going to ISO 200 or 100, there's not a whole lot you can do. Shooting JPEG kinda bakes-in any noise. It increases and becomes mixed-up with JPEG artifacting which makes NR that much harder to do without adding too much softness. Try using whatever NR filter PSE10 gives you and see if that can reduce the colour noise. I wouldn't worry about the intensity noise at all. Just try to kill that colour noise. -- -bmw -- 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.
