On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric, a few questions: > - what was your shutter speed? > - were you shooting handheld? > - what aperture? Wide open? > - what Lightroom NR settings did you use?
What is the air speed of an African swallow Dave > > Aside from the other considerations, I have found that backing way off > on the NR is very helpful. You just _have_ to accept some noise, and > the defaults on most NR packages are too aggressive. The K-5 and K-3 > actually produce fairly film-like noise so leave the Lightroom NR > Luminance slider low and crank on the Color slider to get rid of the > colour artifacts. That will leave you with more apparent sharpness. > > I sometimes intentionally shoot at f2.8 and 50mm on the otherwise > ultra-sharp DA* 16-50/2.8 in order to get a flattering portrait > diffuse softness. If I also crank up the ISO I can forgo retouching > altogether. ;-) > > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Recently I took a bunch of photos in low-light with my K5 set to ISO 12800. >> The lens was an A 28/2.8, which I get good results with with good light. >> After doing noise reduction on them the images looked pretty smudgy. Almost, >> but not quite, like water color images. >> >> I’m blaming the result on poor focusing on my part, which I found difficult >> in low light. I’ve had my eye on a 35mm DA L F2.4 AL for a while. Would I >> have gotten better results with it? >> >> Thanks, >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Eric Weir >> Decatur, GA USA >> [email protected] >> >> "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, >> men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." >> >> - Chief Seattle >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > -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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
