{"id":1158,"date":"2009-05-20T06:02:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T12:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2010-05-25T08:38:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T13:38:17","slug":"the-magic-of-noise-ninja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/the-magic-of-noise-ninja\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic of Noise Ninja"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I have been thinking about getting some noise reduction software for sometime now. I always feel that my higher ISO pictures from my D90, such as 1600, were not quite as good as I would like, but I always seem to need to shoot at that speed.<\/p>\n

Well, I jumped off the fence the other day. The wedding shot that I did had a lot of outdoor shots in the dark with some flash added. Turns out I didn’t hit my bride and groom with quite enough light. Lesson learned. But, I need to salvage this somehow.<\/p>\n

I did a bit of web research and decided on Noise Ninja<\/a>. This plugin has been around for a while now, and there are some really good challengers. In the end I decided based on price, and that they had both a Phtotoshop and Aperture plugin to go with their stand alone app.<\/p>\n

Here are the comparison images. First is without Noise Ninja.<\/p>\n

\"pre-ninja\"<\/p>\n

Here is the same image with Noise Ninja applied in Photoshop.<\/p>\n

\"post-ninja\"<\/p>\n

These images are super zoomed in, and I wish that I had hit them with more light, but the second image is cleaned up quite a bit. The noise reduction has made them softer than I would have liked, but it is a good compromise with noise removal. This was done with a D90 user contributed profile that I found on their site. I don’t really know how to use it yet, but it was a good start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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