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Hey Donald,
An interesting shot. I do like the backlit blossoms in the foreground with the sunrays behind them. Anytime you shoot where you are getting area's that are very dark, you are going to end up with noise if you try to be too agressive in recovering detail from those area's. There just isn't much information left in those area's. The best way to handle this is to bracket when you shoot. Then blend those area's in.
Did you try to recover detail in the dark area's by just adjusting a curve? One thing you can try also is simply in your raw converter to overexpose the shot by one stop and save that image. Then overexpose it by 2 stops and save that image. Depending on whether you gained enough detail in the shadows, you can blend those in. It still won't be as good as just exposing for those area's in the first place by bracketing. 1 stop isn't bad in the raw converter, but by pushing 2 stops you can gain a bit of noise.
As to noise reduction. I use Noiseware now. It's a pretty good program that is both standalone, and a CS3 plugin. Others use Noise Ninja or some of the others, but quite a few of us now use Noiseware.
Hope that helps.
Jim
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