Too Noisy? birds from today
Is this too noisy? I went to download free Neat Ninja, I lost all that when my computer crashed. It won't work without a watermark unless I pay for it.
What do you all think?
(I used the LAB method of sharpening and putting the G blur on the A and B channels.)
ginger
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Short answer: yes, way too noisy. You created a new product btw - there are two noise reducing programs: Neat Image and Noise Ninja.
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Yes it's kinda noisy.
I use Noiseware Community Edition which is free and I'm pretty happy with it.
Hope you don't mind but I ran it through there and came up with this:
Which is a little better. Also maybe it's just my monitor but it seems to have some banding
P.S. congrats on making the finals over at FM, you got my vote
Eric
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Yes, there is probably some banding.
After I posted it, Andy, I thought, "oh, D, I forgot the exif and Andy is going to ask. Then I thought that if it is too noisy, it is too noisy and it wouldn't matter re the exif.
It was probably underexposed. I am making a guess. I am exhausted.
OK, you and I can figure it out from this. I just wanted to know if I could save it. I like pairs. I was shooting a white bird down low and these things showed up. I have problems adjusting rapidly to rapidly changing conditions.
It is F 8, ISO 400, used my 400 mm the whole time, walked for miles and didn't carry anything else, but the exif says the
EV IS A MINUS 1.33
And that is it right there. I just wanted to know if it could be saved. A bit, I like it. It is cropped, not a lot, but some. I don't know what causes the banding, but I did notice something that looked like it could be called banding.
ginger
Oh, on that new product. It was lots of fun trying to google it! I always do that with those two products.
ginger
There were birds all over the place at Caw Caw today. But they are far away, so that is a problem, Plus I mess up.
I was so excited about the shots..................crumb.
ginger again (I keep thinking that Steve and others have to dump shots, but I hate to dump things when they are so difficult to get. MILES we walked. My feet will not work again until tomorrow.)
Steve
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And so you had to increase the exposure dramatically in the raw conversion - thereby introducing the banding and the noise...
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Thanks, Andy!
ginger
Looks like its from underexposure on the background. You should not be getting this much noise at ISO 400.
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I feel bad for ya on this one. I like everything about it but the problems pushing the RAW image produced (noise and banding :-( Yep, I dump my fair share of shots but, fortunately, I don't have to walk miles to shoot them. Hope your feet recover quickly
I've messed up enough shots to have FINALLY (being old, stubborn and lazy might have had something to do with it....lol) learned to double check my settings before shooting. I have problems with near vision so I am seldom able to check the LCD after a shot
Although I don't consider myself a stupid person, it did take me a couple of years and about 20,000 shots to learn these lessons :lol
Steve