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Avenue d'Opera, Paris
This image of Paris was taken very early in morning, quite a bit before sunrise, and is a perfect case study of how even experienced photographers can make dumb mistakes. (In this case, "experienced" means been doing this for a long time, not necessarily brilliant at it)
Even though I had the camera on a tripod, with the intent of shooting frames for focus stacking, I forgot to set the ISO from Auto to the base ISO. So the files were taken at ISO 2500, which is getting fairly noisy for an m43 sensor. (I had taken the Panasonic G9 on this trip, leaving the Sony kit at home.)
Because the camera was locked down on a tripod, I did come away with (7) frames with which to work in post, all with the scene framed the same way. So it became an exercise in hopefully OK, but less than perfect, raw materials (the RAW exposures), and the wonders of modern editing software.
There was nothing in the editing of the files that was simple or direct, so I won't get into the steps, except to say that the final result benefited from Photoshop CC, On1 Photo RAW & Topaz Denoise AI.
If there's something that you don't like about the image, attribute it to my editing choices, not the capabilities of the software.
Brian
Avenue de l'Opera Paris 1200px by Brian Gammon, on Flickr
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