I bought my camera to experiment and I have found that a lot of my night photos look really bad.
A good example of this is here //www.pbase.com/image/9248526 Any suggestions on what I can do with the camera before taking the picture and also what can be done after the picture to clean it up?
I think it can avoid long shutter noise in the future for this kind of shots. I don't think F22 was necessary, never trust an LCD and ask Santa a bigger CF-card. :-)
there's no reason to use such a small aperature on a scene like that. you dont need a really deep depth of field.
try f/5.6 f/4 or even lower. your shutter will drop to more like 1 or 2 sec and you will have MUCHHH less noise :).
if that doesn't work (but it should, because the d30 has a good reputation for low noise), you can use a utility like NEATIMAGE, as Konador mentioned below.
Maybe Arnit or bamaster will help you. They both have used this camera with low light with great success.
I think the long shutter(therefore smaller aperture) is what hurts you.
The F/22 makes this beautiful star-shaped twinkle on the lights. I wouldn't give that up by chosing a too wide aperture.
To me the grain is not that much striking and it's only visible on the plain areas, e.g. the wall and the windows. I would try to change the composition first to get more of the christmas tree and less of the background into the frame.
The F/22 makes this beautiful star-shaped twinkle on the lights. I wouldn't give that up by chosing a too wide aperture.
I am pretty sure that you get the twinkle with F16 or F11 as well.
I could be very wrong about this, but I always thought the twinkle (which I've used often and love) comes from the exposure time, not the aperture... Of course aperture affects shutter time so it may be a moot point...
I have a whole serie of twinkle shots at F11 1 second....
But the same at F4 1/90 (ISO1600) doesn't have the twinkle effect.
Perhaps it is both. The smaller the aperture, the greater the effect with a minimum exposure of x seconds at F8/11/16/22?
The twinkle is only affected by the aperture. Also, the smaller the aperture the more "rays" the star-shaped twinkle will have.
It's some kind of lens-effect and/or because of this angular form of the shutter. I don't know exactly the technical background (maybe Google knows) but so it was told to me and I verified that by my own experiments ;-)
I guess it's the same effect that you can see when you squint.
Jimmyn4, I hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of seeing if I could improve your image a little bit. Here is the before and after photo. I used Neatimage to remove some of the noise as well as levels adjutments, sharpening and a little cropping. If you disapprove of what I have done I will promply remove the images.
Jimmyn4, I hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of seeing if I could improve your image a little bit. Here is the before and after photo. I used Neatimage to remove some of the noise as well as levels adjutments, sharpening and a little cropping. If you disapprove of what I have done I will promply remove the images.
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Wow, that really made a difference. I have Photoshop 6 but I can't get results like that. I'm still learning.
Wow, that's awesome. I have really have to start messing around with Photoshop more. Good job.
Originally posted by timj351:
Jimmyn4, I hope you don't mind but I took the liberty of seeing if I could improve your image a little bit. Here is the before and after photo. I used Neatimage to remove some of the noise as well as levels adjutments, sharpening and a little cropping. If you disapprove of what I have done I will promply remove the images.
