On Jun 8, 2014, at 20:08 , Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 8, 2014, at 05:06 , 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? >> > > The first thing to look into for "water-color" looks is the noise reduction > you applied. > I'll add, too, that when ISO 6400 looks this clean: http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2014/rebel_rebel_xi/content/K5__0878_large.html .. why bother with NR? The only thing I did to edit this photo is bump the exposure up by half a stop in Lightroom. (A fairly small image, I'll grant you. But a little grit/grain is not a bad thing in a photo) -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.
