Noise reduction

[Silver Simon]

I took this shot Tuesday in torrential driving rain with high winds.

This is the unedited shot.

It was taken with a Canon 5D iii and a 70-200 lens with the following settings ... F2.8. 1/400 and ISO 6400.

Apart from, are there better settings I should be trying my problem is the noise reduction in Elements 11 and Noiseware. When I apply Noiseware, even on a 'weak' setting a lot of the rain goes and it looks like a nice night.

I wanted to have a dramatic rain filled shot but got this ...

So can Noiseware differentiate between fine rain and camera noise?

Thanks

 

[gnirtS]

That's going to be hard as the rain is over the dark areas.

You could try it with layers and layer masks - selectively add/remove a mask from the areas you want to edit or dial in a grey or layer opacity for the area with rain to reduce the effect.

Or even make some duplicates of the image with different noiseware settings completely applied to each layer (say one for players, 1 for the rain etc).

Either way its going to be fairly time consuming!

 

[Silver Simon]

That's going to be hard as the rain is over the dark areas.

You could try it with layers and layer masks - selectively add/remove a mask from the areas you want to edit or dial in a grey or layer opacity for the area with rain to reduce the effect.

Or even make some duplicates of the image with different noiseware settings completely applied to each layer (say one for players, 1 for the rain etc).

Either way its going to be fairly time consuming!

Hi, thanks for that, not what I wanted to hear!

I only do it for the players, the club programme and a few for local papers, so it's not really worth loads of time spent on it. I think another problem on Tuesday was that it was a very fine rain, drizzle like but with a very, very strong wind.