Noise Reduction From Wedding Ceremony

HamezUK

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I have always just used Lightrooms basic settings under the Detail Pane but sometimes find that when reducing heavy noise my images start to look overly smoothed. What's everyones go to technique for reducing noise when being forced to shoot at a high ISO?
 
Do you have Photoshop as well? If so, try doing the NR on a layer and then reducing the opacity until you get a reasonable amount of detail back. Working through a layer mask will allow you to add more NR in areas where it matters (usually shadows) without turning skin to plastic.
 
it might also be best not to bother - the client is far les likely to give a toss about noise than they are to worry about blurring (resulting from NR) - IME non photographers don't even notice noise in shadow areas and such because they arent looking there anyway
 
The noise reduction in LR is pretty good. The problem is with high noise a lot of smoothing is required. It all depends on where the noise is most obvious. Try adjusting the detail slider to see if this helps. Most noise seems to come from the blue channel. Rather than increasing the luminance control use the colour option see if this helps reduce the "smoothness of the image
 
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Do you need to reduce the noise? How does it look printed?

I use no noise reduction right up to 3200 ISO.

I uses a mix of Noiseware, Nik Define and DXO.

DXO is probably the best, but noise ware is stronger.
 
HamezUK said:
I have always just used Lightrooms basic settings under the Detail Pane but sometimes find that when reducing heavy noise my images start to look overly smoothed. What's everyones go to technique for reducing noise when being forced to shoot at a high ISO?
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Apply NR until they look as you describe, then back off until they don't. There's no magic cure. If you shoot at high ISO you'll get more noise. I've tried them all, and I'm not convinced that there' a massive difference between them all. Apply too much and you'll lose detail and get that overly smooth/oil painting look you refer to.
 
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