10-22-2024, 04:13 AM
Thanks for the comments, Lorell and Rich.
Also, thanks for the comments on Flikr, Lorell.
That SS Amsterdam at night was a huge problem. The city of Amsterdam has an annual "Festival of Lights" around Nov/Dec. I toured the canals on a boat after dark. Last time out I had many blurred images, so this time I used Manual, setting the speed to 1/100 s and the ISO to 6400, F-Stop wide open, and generally on auto-focus (although one might need to press the button a few times to get it to register). I took about 160 shots, and virtually all of them are seriously under-exposed, and thus had severe noise. I tried out as many trial conversion/noise removal processes as I could get my hands on. As a result, I eventually bought Topaz DeNoise AI. I now use a combination of DeNoise AI together with DeNoise 5 and 6, depending on the image.
I was amazed at the detail one can still get out of the very dark areas. I was actually editing another image from that night last week, and was surprised to find that I could bring up details of a concrete block and steel baseplate below water level. I had not even known that it was there. Of course, given the amount of noise, one can hardly use those details. But still, it is amazing that the camera registered it at all.
regards - Peter
Also, thanks for the comments on Flikr, Lorell.
That SS Amsterdam at night was a huge problem. The city of Amsterdam has an annual "Festival of Lights" around Nov/Dec. I toured the canals on a boat after dark. Last time out I had many blurred images, so this time I used Manual, setting the speed to 1/100 s and the ISO to 6400, F-Stop wide open, and generally on auto-focus (although one might need to press the button a few times to get it to register). I took about 160 shots, and virtually all of them are seriously under-exposed, and thus had severe noise. I tried out as many trial conversion/noise removal processes as I could get my hands on. As a result, I eventually bought Topaz DeNoise AI. I now use a combination of DeNoise AI together with DeNoise 5 and 6, depending on the image.
I was amazed at the detail one can still get out of the very dark areas. I was actually editing another image from that night last week, and was surprised to find that I could bring up details of a concrete block and steel baseplate below water level. I had not even known that it was there. Of course, given the amount of noise, one can hardly use those details. But still, it is amazing that the camera registered it at all.
regards - Peter