It's been a while since I took these shots, it was back in 2018 actually.
I decided to re-edit them for one major reason and that's DXO Photolab 4 and the, in my opinion, revolutionary noise reduction. These were shot at ISO 1000 so by no means near the limit of the E-M1 Mk II sensor anyway but DXO made a huge difference.
Also, by waiting two and a half years I looked at the shots way different and have changed my editing, all the sudden I am quite happy with the results where as before they looked way washed out, grainy and without the detail that I wanted. In hindsight, I should have shot them 1-1,5 stops darker which is what I have done in the edit. That could have given me better shutter speed at the same ISO, or just simply lower ISO. Live and learn, right?
Wilbus wrote:
It's been a while since I took these shots, it was back in 2018 actually.
I decided to re-edit them for one major reason and that's DXO Photolab 4 and the, in my opinion, revolutionary noise reduction. These were shot at ISO 1000 so by no means near the limit of the E-M1 Mk II sensor anyway but DXO made a huge difference.
Also, by waiting two and a half years I looked at the shots way different and have changed my editing, all the sudden I am quite happy with the results where as before they looked way washed out, grainy and without the detail that I wanted. In hindsight, I should have shot them 1-1,5 stops darker which is what I have done in the edit. That could have given me better shutter speed at the same ISO, or just simply lower ISO. Live and learn, right? ...Show more →
Hey, those look good. Always great to have newer software that can improve old images.
I have not used DXO, but now use Topaz AI DeNoise and it makes a lot of improvement on some images, and not so much on others.
Imagemaster wrote:
Hey, those look good. Always great to have newer software that can improve old images.
I have not used DXO, but now use Topaz AI DeNoise and it makes a lot of improvement on some images, and not so much on others.
Yeah it is, specially software that makes such a big difference in many photos.
My brother also uses Topaz Denoise for is Fuji files as DXO doesn't support Fuji. He likes it a lot as well. It would seem that higher ISO shots fair far better in Topaz than they do in Lightroom or Capture One. I was impressed by Capture One compared to Lightroom when I started using it but none of them comes close to DXO in terms of reducing noise with very little loss in detail.
I know Topaz is really good as well and it works on all file types. DXO is limited to RAW images but I do find that, for my use and how I use it, DXO gives better results faster compared to Topaz.
Like you said, some shots benefit from it while other less so. And your shots are great as always.
An older shot taken in Canyonlands in 2014, one stop in a Southwest USA driving trip. Never processed before. I believe that this is a juniper, but open to correction.
As a form of self-amusement, I'm forcing myself out of my go-to workflow, and trying different tools or alternatively, the same tools in a different order. I generally start off in Lightroom Classic for RAW development, then quickly over to PS. With this image I started in On1 RAW 2021 and largely stayed there.
