night into day
It was nearly dark and there was the strong smell of smoke in the air as I headed up to Top of the World Park. With a little light still on the horizon, I decided to try some long exposures – just for the fun of it!With the big dark clouds and the city lights and maybe even the haze of smoke, I love the way my camera turns night into day. When I downloaded the shots – there were all of those pesky multi-colored sparkles of light throughout my images (I had seen this before on one of my moon shots). After a little research, I now know what NOISE is!! Tonight I am going to read up on NOISE reduction and see what that does.
Is there no end to the fun??
posted by Ptelea @ 7:11 AM
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4 Comments:
Photosphop, and it's less expensive competitor Paintshop, can both de-speckle and reduce noise. I suspect Elements does too.
Thank you John - I knew someone would give me more info here! I have barely used the editing softwares yet - just for contrast enhancement mostly. I am pretty sure my camera has a noise reduction setting which I was thinking of trying.
Out of curiousity, what was your ISO setting? Needless to say, the higher the ISO, the higher the noise quotient.
I have a crappy point and shoot camera, so I find noise in every photo with an ISO rating higher than 50. The really high end SLRs can go up to 1600 ISO without much noise at all.
Hi Tim,
The stats on that photo are:
focal length 22mm
f-stop f/22
exposure time 60 sec.
ISO speed ISO-800
date & time 6/18/2006 9:11 PM
camera Olympus E-1
lens Zuiko 14-54 mm
1:2.8-3.5
and yes, I used a tripod!
You do great things with your point & shoot because as you know, it has a lot of settings that allow you to do more than point and shoot!
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