Comments on: Monday Musings – Reducing Noise in your photos

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:48:58 +0000

Thanks Eric, for the input. You are correct in that that film grain and digital noise are two different things. However, for the purposes of this post, and just to give a little perspective on the idea that the noise and grain have been around for a while, and have been managed in different ways. The historical reference while factually may not have been presented in the most accurate, was there only to illustrate that speed is a contributing factor to noise (ASA or ISO), and that when you increase the speed used, be definition, the amount of grain/noise will also increase somewhat proportionally.

By: Eric Neilsen

Eric Neilsen — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:37:52 +0000

Jason, your musing on film grain and noise are just factually incorrect. Noise and film grain are two distinctly different things. Film grain was NOT solely determined by the film choice, or format, but also by developer and the techniques used to process the film.

AS for how to handle noise today, yes there are many ways to handle noise but not all noise is the same; color noise and luminance noise, region – high frequency, low, etc.

Where and when to handle noise? The best place after capture is in the RAW converter. However, that option is limited now and although found in LR and PS with ACR it lacks quality. I think you’ll see more of the noise reduction software become available to the RAW conversion process. I use both Noiseware Professional (95%) and Neat image ( the remaining 5% of the time). It is applied first thing after opening up an image in PS. Two levels of reduction can be applied and should be done as an output specific step along with sharpening as an output specific idea.

Eric

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By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:09:06 +0000

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