Denoising Noisy Goose
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Dave In La
Registered: Jul 07, 2006
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It was gloomy and very cold here in Louisiana this morning
and stayed that way all day, so I was shooting a few egrets
without much success for good composition, when this goose
made a noisy clatter....that's mostly what this post is about,
the noise I captured

Here's the goose, pp from a noisy 800 ISO shot way underexposed,
remember I was set up for white egrets. I turned and fired, even chopped a bit of his head and had to add canvas to top of frame.

This is final image:


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not sure if a slight head turn would have been better.

Now a 100% crop showing noise, this is after RAW, as I
do zero NR and zero sharpening in RAW.


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after NR with Topaz Denoise. Do this on a dupe layer
and mask later for varied strength of NR
(I have NO connection with Topaz,
just a happy camper with their product)


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just sharing a bit, thanks for looking in
and have a great weekend


thehotel
Registered: Jul 18, 2006
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Thanks for the info Dave. I just printed this so I can try it out.



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Tim Kuhn
Registered: Nov 29, 2006
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Cool deal Dave, some great info and timely at that as I am struggling with some noisy shots.

Well done.

Tim



lbuscher
Registered: Sep 19, 2004
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Thats a heck of a job Dave, lot of work it sounds like, I wish I knew what you are talking about not a great computer person. One day I will learn about masking layers meantime I just have to take photos that are OK right out of the camera

I find that all my canon bodys at 800 or higher give me a lot of noise and did from day one and I used the faithful mode in raw but that was even worse. In a way I am a bit sorry I switched from my old Nikon stuff which I still have some of but now less monry. Do you give lesons on line
Lou
PS I think I can see the added canvas line on top Dave.



GAREN
Registered: Apr 21, 2006
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Thanks Dave for the information.

Garen



Rob Tillyer
Registered: Nov 17, 2007
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Nice job Dave, thanks for sharing. I tried Topaz but went back to noise ninja "the devil I knew" . I might try it again after looking at your work.

Rob



Lil Judd
Registered: Oct 19, 2007
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Lovely shot Dave

Lil - taking a break from the cleanup job after the California Wildfires....



Imagemaster
Registered: Feb 23, 2004
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Nice work young fella. And here I thought Topaz Denoise was some fancy Louisiana dish.

Tony



Karl Witt
Registered: Jul 11, 2007
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If I were just to have seen the image Dave I would have been quite pleased. Knowing what you did to present this image is interesting and surprising. It would have gone undetected to me, I would have commented on how nice the detail and tonal range is in all the wing feather layering from the whites to the darker grays, and they don't show any noise
Glad you shared the processing technique on this, it's nice to know that your shots need a little help in PP every now and then

Karl



Dave In La
Registered: Jul 07, 2006
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thanks for lookin' in and commenting all

Lou, I go around looking for lessons sometimes but I will
post a thread soon on how to do selective denoise and sharpening by layer masks
soon if there is enough interest and I can get away with the OT thread



lbuscher
Registered: Sep 19, 2004
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Dave In La wrote:
thanks for lookin' in and commenting all

Lou, I go around looking for lessons sometimes but I will
post a thread soon on how to do selective denoise and sharpening by layer masks
soon if there is enough interest and I can get away with the OT thread


OK Thanks Dave and I sent you a PM on this BTW Leet me know about this other software your useing for noise, interesting
Lou



Tim Kuhn
Registered: Nov 29, 2006
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Dave In La wrote:
thanks for lookin' in and commenting all

Lou, I go around looking for lessons sometimes but I will
post a thread soon on how to do selective denoise and sharpening by layer masks
soon if there is enough interest and I can get away with the OT thread


I'm interested!!

Tim



Mr Zoom
Registered: Jul 03, 2006
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I don't know how to use layers, Dave, so not sure this technique would be much use to me. However, you sure made good use of it and for that I salute you


Ken



Dave In La
Registered: Jul 07, 2006
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thanks guys, I will post something up after Thanksgiving then others can add their
techniques to the thread and we can all absorb what is relevant to our workflow



danjacquitaylo
Registered: Jun 13, 2005
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Hi Dave,
I downloaded the trial version and it seems to work great. Thanks for the info and the great picture as well.
Dan



Dave In La
Registered: Jul 07, 2006
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danjacquitaylo wrote:
Hi Dave,
I downloaded the trial version and it seems to work great. Thanks for the info and the great picture as well.
Dan


be sure to watch the video too....it goes a bit in depth



danjacquitaylo
Registered: Jun 13, 2005
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Dave In La wrote:
danjacquitaylo wrote:
Hi Dave,
I downloaded the trial version and it seems to work great. Thanks for the info and the great picture as well.
Dan


be sure to watch the video too....it goes a bit in depth

I sure will. Thanks again
dan



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