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Guest
21-Jan-2004 17:52
Phil:
You were absolutely right, but I thought I had done everything possible to reduce the noise with Neat Image. I was wrong. In the process of trying to post-process a better image I have learned quite a bit more about NI. Adjustments such as EV compensation, contrast, saturation, etc. in RAW processing have a more significant effect on noise than I had imagined. To make a long story short: If you shoot at ISO 800 and still need to do a +2 EV compensation the noise pattern will be more like ISO 3200 (not exactly, but close) than 800.
I reprocessed with no EV compensation and then ran NI for ISO 800. I did all the brightness adjustments after that - the resulting image was so clean I actually added some noise to make the skin look better!
You learn something new every day :)
Guest
14-Jan-2004 22:57
Julio - much better on the face. However (sorry!) I'm now seeing some noise in the darkest part of the hair... Phil
Guest
14-Jan-2004 17:49
Thanks Lonnit. Disneycoorp probably considers real belly skin too racy for a PG show :)
Guest
12-Jan-2004 15:05
Excellent capture! I have a hard time with that fake belly skin though... YETCH! Not your fault though! LOL! You did your job superbly. :) ~ Lonnit
Guest
12-Jan-2004 04:03
Oops... I loaded an earlier darker version originally - Thanks Phil. How is this one?
Guest
11-Jan-2004 19:00
Julio - great image. At the risk of sounding like Joe, I think you could lighten her face a little - Joe has the technique which he has passed on to me and I think it would work really well here. Phil.
