Just wondering what you folks are doing about noise in your images. At the moment I'm using the noise reduction in Lightroom. Are the alternatives better? If so how.
For proofs we use the noise reduction in Aperture as needed. When further treatment is needed, such as for prints, we turn that off and use Noise Ninja instead.
I don't use LR's noise reduction - I cannot see much of an improvement with it. I will edit the image in CS3 and use my Noise Ninja plugin and then save it back to LR. Works great.
nikongirl wrote:
I don't use LR's noise reduction - I cannot see much of an improvement with it. I will edit the image in CS3 and use my Noise Ninja plugin and then save it back to LR. Works great.
I notice a big improvement with lightroom's noise reduction. It does tend to smooth everything out like Ryan mentioned. It would be great if you could use noise ninja as a lightroom plugin.
LAPhotoPro.com wrote:
Just wondering what you folks are doing about noise in your images. At the moment I'm using the noise reduction in Lightroom. Are the alternatives better? If so how.
If you use lightroom, leave the default settings for noise. ACR/LR is an incredibly noisy converter and puts noise into the image, the defaukt settings remove it to an extent. Mostly this is a non issue.
The best way to deal with noise is not to put it in in the first place so if I am doing work on grainy, high ISO shots, then I will stay clear of ACR/LR and use DPP as it gives a cleaner end product. I then treat with noise ninja.
If you are using ninja then a caveat should be that the supplied profiles for your camera are probably worthless if you RAW with ACR/LR. I would build completely new profiles and ensure you do your convert with all noise reduction off.
I just leave it. As long as Lightroom corrects the color noise, I'm happy. It's barely noticeable in a print, and I quite pixel-peeping a couple years ago!!
For high noise shots I use the adobe plugin Imagenomic Noiseware. I'm not as good as other photographer's on here and not as comfortable with leaving the noise as is so I use it when needed. On my 5d I don't tend to use it much as I feel that it doesn't make enough difference in most cases, but when shooting with my 40d I use a it a lot more.
Isn't DPP a bit clunky to use for weddings ? I'd say at least 1/2-2/3 of my wedding photos are at ISO1600, if I had to put each one through DPP I'd lose what little marbles I have left.
Don't do any noise reduction, but i don't print ISO 3200 images any larger than 8x12. At 1600 ISO, I can get really large prints if I expose properly with a 5D.
J. Consiglio wrote:
I just leave it. As long as Lightroom corrects the color noise, I'm happy. It's barely noticeable in a print, and I quite pixel-peeping a couple years ago!!
Jonathan Consiglio
AMEN. AMEN. AMEN.
Every time I read some post about the horrors of noise when viewed at 1600%, I look at the 8x10 ISO 1000 D70 PRINT that I have tacked above my desk. Given a correctly exposed image, noise is mostly meaningless in PRINTS.
