Comments on: 91 — 3 ways to reduce noise in photography

By: Sevenwords

Sevenwords — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:31:10 +0000

Don’t forget about the effect of the sensor’s temperature on noise. In general, the warmer the sensor the more noise is produced. If possible keep your camera away from external heat sources and avoid live view because it heats up the sensor.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:42:21 +0000

Thanks for the comments and extra tips Jack, muchly appreciated! i tried to keep the podcast really simple because noise can be quite a complex issue. Scott’s logic works well for me and makes perfect sense.

many thanks again!

By: Jack Label

Jack Label — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:24:42 +0000

Forgot to mention, Lightroom 3 and ACR6 has an EXCELLENT noise reduction and you can also remove all noise and add some fake grain, which makes the picture even better.

By: Jack Label

Jack Label — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:23:29 +0000

Marko, just this week Scott Bourne made a comment about noise, and I also think its very true, if you expose for the right side of the histogram, what would be the light areas, you get lesser noise. If you are photographin on RAW mode try to get as much light as possible then darken the image on pos processing that would dramatically decrease noise.

Also light quality influence on ammount of noise, lets say youre photographing a christmas party, using ambient light at night. If the ambient light is bulb light (yellowish light), you lack blue light, the camera will try to compensate this lack for the perfect light for the camera is white light (not blue, not yellow buth both at the same time) and it will introduce a lot of noise, so if you introduce a small pop of flash light the flash will compensate some of the lacking quality and will lower the amount of noise. Do the test, with same high ISO make a flash and non flash picture, youll see how much noise can be reduces just by raising the quality of light.

Happy holidays for everyone and good pictures to all.