Noise Ninja To Buy or Not To Buy?

[MagicallyDelicious]

I shot my first wedding last week and at the end of the day the bride wanted a few shot in the hotel where the reception was. Trouble is it was DARK i cranked the ISO up and boy can you tell.

Ive just noise ninja'd the photo and it does look alot better BUT is there anything else i can use as if possible i dont wanna buy the software. Any free ones floating round the net that you know about? I mean i will buy it as its not that expensive but id rather not.

Help me please :)

Thankyou

[MagicallyDelicious]

anyone?

[Curtis N]

Geez. A little impatient? ;)

Noise Ninja and Neatimage are the two leaders in noise reduction software.

In my opinion, if you are getting paid to produce images, your customers deserve professional results. This means buying whatever software it takes to make your images look their best.

I highly recommend buying one or the other.

[fivefish]

I have the Noise Ninja for several years now, and as you say... it's not very expensive. There is the standalone and photoshop plugin version too (get both) for convenience.

NN can definitely rescue a high-noise image. It's one of the best. And it's a free download everytime they upgrade the software.

Another option you may want to look at is NeatImage.

[MagicallyDelicious]

Geez. A little impatient? ;)

Noise Ninja and Neatimage are the two leaders in noise reduction software.

In my opinion, if you are getting paid to produce images, your customers deserve professional results. This means buying whatever software it takes to make your images look their best.

I highly recommend buying one or the other.

Hey :) yes impatient! im a woman afterall!

I wasnt paid. it was family and im not sure i ever want to do a wedding again so thats why im a little stuck on wether to buy or not but i totally agree with what your saying.
And at least i know its worth it now :) Ill look at neatimage too. thankyou greatly :)

[ssim]

I have been using Neat Image Pro+ for awhile now and am very satisfied with it.

Now that you have seen the possibilities of what can be done with noise management software, I would suspect that you would want to use it in the future. Even if you don't do weddings in the future you will be shooting high ISO for yourself.

I played around with some freeware that I can't even remember now. They just didn't give me the same results as Neat Image. I have nothing again Noise Ninja, I just had to pick one or the other and Neat Image was it.

[cyclone]

Neat Image has a free version. It won't do 16bit or a few other things, but if that isn't important for the images you have, the price is right. I have the Pro+ version that works very well.

[MagicallyDelicious]

You have all been a great help. thanks so much :)

i might just be able to save some bad bad pics ! lol

[EOS_JD]

I used to use NoiseNinja but recently tried Neatimage on a friend's PC. Wow I loved it and now own a copy.

[tim]

You won't see the noise unless you do a large print. Print it and see if it's acceptable and only get NN if you really need it. I have NN pro but rarely use it. Grain/noise is not a problem, I know my customers aren't too fussy about image quality, what they care about is the moment.

[Curtis N]

my customers aren't too fussy about image quality...I need to find some customers like that. They would be a perfect match for my skill level.

[tim]

I should probably clarify. From talking to people who i've done prints for, most wouldn't notice a bit of grain/noise, if the white ballance was a little off, or other minor things like this. They care that I captured the moment, and that the print looks ok. Of course image quality is important, but I think photographers are more fussy than regular people.

[Photo Gib]

I use Grain Surgery 2 and the Kodak Photoshop plugins. They both have different looks, but I prefer Grain Surgery. It has a few different effects from smooting/removing grain to adding and matching grain (which is more useful than you might think). I especially like the presets that emulate various brands and ISOs of traditional film.

Has anyone compared Noise Ninja with Grain Surgery? I'd be interested to know how they stack up.:)

[tim]

Has anyone compared Noise Ninja with Grain Surgery? I'd be interested to know how they stack up.:)

http://www.michaelalmond.com/Articles/noise.htm

[Photo Gib]

http://www.michaelalmond.com/Articles/noise.htm

DUDE! Sweet! :) :) :) :) Gracias!@!

[Bob_A]

I shot some images last weekend (dragon boat races) at ISO 3200, lens wide open, lower shutterspeed than what I what I needed and still 1 stop underexposed. After correcting the exposure during RAW conversion I ran the jpegs through Noise Ninja using the batch mode. While the images aren't great due to the low shutterspeed I used, I was very impressed that the noise was cleaned up enough that I could make decent small prints.

As Tim said though, the competitors thought the pictures were great, mainly because they captured the moment. To me they're a horrible blurry mess from trying to shoot a moving object with a 200mm lens at 1/80s to 1/160s :)

[MagicallyDelicious]

I shot some images last weekend (dragon boat races) at ISO 3200, lens wide open, lower shutterspeed than what I what I needed and still 1 stop underexposed. After correcting the exposure during RAW conversion I ran the jpegs through Noise Ninja using the batch mode. While the images aren't great due to the low shutterspeed I used, I was very impressed that the noise was cleaned up enough that I could make decent small prints.

As Tim said though, the competitors thought the pictures were great, mainly because they captured the moment. To me they're a horrible blurry mess from trying to shoot a moving object with a 200mm lens at 1/80s to 1/160s :)

yes bob i know what you mean, to me they look awful but i bet the bride and groom wouldnt bat an eye lid. we are our own worst critics!