P.S. Yes Les, I knew a bit underexposed ... but I had run out of light and felt 1/6s shutter speed was already pushing it. Appreciate your \"turn off the LR sharpening\" and I\'m going to have to add that step to my processing ... in fact, I think I may just default to ZERO sharpening for the RAW conversion as I typically do in Photoshop as the very last step after any cropping/resizing.
Alex,
My comment was not intended in any way to be critical of any decisions that you made with regard to settings or anything you did with technique. I can\'t imagine how you could have done any better than you did with conditions that you were faced with. My only point was intended to be that, given the conditions, I think it would have been pretty hard to do any better than you did.
Also, with regard to the beautiful image that you added, while the noise may be visible at 100%, I would not be concerned in the least with trying to clean it up further because I can\'t image that the noise there would be visible at the image level or detract in any way from the quality of even a moderately large print. It is a great example of how noise can be bothersome only to those who insist on making such judgments by viewing at 100%.
Les
No sweat Les - I didn\'t take your posting as critical at all - you were just starting the facts and actually quite germane to this discussion since we all agree that expose to the right is even more critical at high ISO\'s ... and that was just not an option here.
All the best,
alek
Sep 04, 2012 at 07:19 PM
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