Here is a shot from a recent trip to Wilsons Prom, when the moon was hiding I have a large backlog of files to look at, the main reason I started editing this shot was to check and compare how I'm doing my workflow and check that its providing the best Noise reduction etc. And that will explain the second shot, I used 4 slightly different techniques for Noise reduction, lens correction . Once I settled on what I thought was best I then did some tonal curves adjustments etc in Lightroom
Large of the shot
Cannon 60D, f2.0, 10 seconds ISO3200
Large of comparison
So here are 4 100% crops of this shot with different techinques from left to right they are
- Canon's DPP software
- DPP + the inbuilt Digital Lens Optimiser (DLO) in the DPP software
- All RAW NR & lens correction removed in DPP and done in Lightroom only
- Basic "default" values in DPP then in Lightroom lower NR settings than in no3.
There is a slight colour difference in the 2 shots in lightroom, I left it as the default from loading the image (same with DPP) however they look slightly warmer.
I think it confirms that I had thought (and luckyily what I had been doing) that a mix of both (eg the last shot) seems to handle the noise the best while giving the most detail.
Whats your thoughts are your thoughts? Which processing works best for reducing noise? What other methods are people using?