How to undo my 'noobness'

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Whilst looking through me Le Mans shots from last year, I have discovered that (and bare in mind that I didn't know much about the settings at the time) I have the ISO set to 1600 for the entirety. This was on a 450D, so it doesn't exactly handle high ISO very well. Is there a trick that I can use to try and reduce the noise in these pictures?

I'm using Lightroom.

Thanks.
 
There's options in Lightroom to reduce noise. Masking in the Sharpening tools and Luminance etc in the eh, Noise Reduction tools funnily enough. It's bloody good at it too.
 
BRASH said:
There's options in Lightroom to reduce noise. Masking in the Sharpening tools and Luminance etc in the eh, Noise Reduction tools funnily enough. It's bloody good at it too.
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Cleisthenes said:
Whilst looking through me Le Mans shots from last year, I have discovered that (and bare in mind that I didn't know much about the settings at the time) I have the ISO set to 1600 for the entirety. This was on a 450D, so it doesn't exactly handle high ISO very well. Is there a trick that I can use to try and reduce the noise in these pictures?

I'm using Lightroom.

Thanks.
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Yeah... use Lightroom's noise reduction. It's pretty much as good as anything else you'll find if used properly.
 
Some of the the best noise reduction I have seen is in the DXO V9 software package. However the software itself is spendy and the noise reduction on the prime setting (for ultimate noise reduction) is very slow, taking several minutes for a typical image. The results are, however, quite astonishing from examples I've seen posted by users. Have a look here: http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/dxo-v9-prime-noise-reduction_topic102238.html
 
Just tried DxO. PRIME has some horrible artefacts on OOF backgrounds.

Original pic.

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Crop after NR in Lightroom (Luminance 79, Detail 64)
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Crop after NR in DxO using PRIME (Luminance 49, Chrominance 49, Low Frq 50)
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Not impressed to be honest.

It gets rid of more noise, but at the expense of looking false and processed. I prefer well managed noise.

Edit... pay no attention to colour balance... this RAW has already had colour balancing done to it in LR, whereas DxO had no WB settings made.
 
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Tried with lower settings (Luminance 38, LF 38, Chrominance 50) Noise characteristics are better handled, but still has a horrible processed look to it.

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Sorry... really not worth the cash. You can remove more noise with it, and I think people are just impressed with that, but it looks pants IMO.
 
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