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Most times when you read about dealing with high-ISO noise, the information is about how to use noise-reduction software to minimize noise.\u00a0 This time however, when I say “dealing with high-ISO noise”, I meant in the sense of just dealing with it \/ accepting it.\u00a0 I do have Noise Ninja and Neat Image, and would recommend them if you have an image suffering from excess noise.\u00a0 However, often times, it might just not be necessary.<\/p>\n
The image above was shot with the Nikon D3 (and Nikon 24-70mm f2.8 lens), late afternoon on a rainy day as I was leaning in from the driver’s\u00a0rear window\u00a0looking into the limo.\u00a0 I asked the couple to lean forward and snuggle in .. and grabbed a few frames.\u00a0 The light was pretty dark .. but flash would’ve spoiled the ambiance and neon colors.\u00a0 So I exposed for the existing light at 1\/15th @ f2.8 @ 3200 ISO<\/p>\n
As you can see from those settings, there isn’t much headroom either way.\u00a0 I am wide-open on the zoom, and at the maximum recommended ISO .. and a pretty slow shutter speed to handhold the camera.\u00a0 This means I *had* to be at that very high ISO to ensure\u00a0a usable\u00a0image at all.<\/p>\n
How does it look?\u00a0 I think that overall\u00a0it looks fantastic.\u00a0 When you do\u00a0 you go to the 100% view of the image …<\/p>\n
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.. you can see some image softness from subject movement and camera shake.\u00a0 The digital noise also becomes noticeable… but in my opinion, not objectionable.\u00a0 I should mention that the image was bumped up by 1\/2 stop when I edited the RAW file, making the digital noise slightly more apparent.<\/p>\n
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The impact of an image, and how it imparts a sense of place and mood, and shows something of value .. all of that trumps the concerns for pristine image quality.<\/p>\n
Back to the high-ISO noise there – if you consider how the image might be used, it is usually less noticeable than you may think from the 100% view on your screen.\u00a0 High-ISO noise appears to print differently than it usually looks on the computer screen.\u00a0 On top of that, the image size when you print it, also has an influence.<\/p>\n
In this instance, I had a 24×36 inch canvas print made of this photograph, with no noise reduction added.\u00a0 Just the image as it is.<\/p>\n
From normal viewing distance, it looks just great.\u00a0 With your nose closer to the canvas, you can see the noise … but that would be just silly in my opinion.\u00a0 The print is meant to be viewed from a proper distance.\u00a0\u00a0 And the high-ISO noise just doesn’t come into account then.\u00a0 Even more so since the canvas print does give a\u00a0more painterly quality to it.<\/p>\n
I’ve shown this large canvas print to my client, and she loved it.\u00a0 I love it, she loves it … and that’s as far as I need to get involved in the finer details of processing the image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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