-=1D Mk II and Mk IIn Owners Unite! (Round 2)

hopefully better than last weeks sand storm

That last one looks great, Pat!

As to your "sand storms", well, the noise is mostly in the background and that can be removed easily. Take this shot from last week:

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thanks
I dont have photoshop
I got lr
need to learn how to do it there is possible
Im using blacks more thanks
all shots this week were flash
and I learned how to set it at hi sync
still dont know if Im doing it right

flicker kills my exif
or I dont know how to set it

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #16384931

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You are often shooting in difficult, low light conditions so no wonder you are getting some noise sometimes. But it is mostly in the background and is pretty easy to get rid of if it bothers you. Me, it doesn't bother at all.

That's a great edit, did you blur the background or do some NR? Trying to learn myself how to reduce noise the best way possible and I'm not that good.

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #16384931
That last one looks great, Pat!

As to your "sand storms", well, the noise is mostly in the background and that can be removed easily. Take this shot from last week:

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The background is noisy but the players are pretty clean.
So I took it to Photoshop and applied some noise reduction to the background.
Took only a minute but it cleans up the background quite a bit, even on this jpeg:

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You are often shooting in difficult, low light conditions so no wonder you are getting some noise sometimes. But it is mostly in the background and is pretty easy to get rid of if it bothers you. Me, it doesn't bother at all.

What ISO are these at?

Lynda.com has an excellent series of short videos on using Lightroom. It costs $25 per month for a subscription, with no long-term subscription required. LR is powerful, but not that easy to learn. It seems easy, but that is only scratching the thinnest layer of the surface.

Specifically for your night-time football photos, you can use the noise reduction tools with great success, selectively adjust exposure, add some clarity/sharpness, and often in far less time than firing up PS. You may find that you don't need PS.

1260? maybe
I usually hate to shoot that high
yeah I know Im a noise freek
I dont have PS
I have slid the sliders all over the place in LR noise reduction
I dont see a big difference when I do it (not a shocker)
The lovely Miss Levina does it and its great (not a shocker)
I have found by a fellow potn member (not a shocker)
start with blacks about -10 and they will cut some noise
and adjust it as needed

I have a 1D2 and people tell me its a pretty good high iso camera
DXO rates it above the 7D and 70D , which I cant figure cuz Ive seen high iso shots from those and they are way better than mine (not a shocker)

Good stuff by all thanks

sorry Im a slow learned (not a shocker)

thanks (you can call me) Al
thats what I basically do
with not a lot of success or as much as the great members of POTN (not a shocker)

Radders wrote in post #16392539
That's a great edit, did you blur the background or do some NR? Trying to learn myself how to reduce noise the best way possible and I'm not that good.

Thanks. I ran some NR (I use Noiseware). I duplicated the background, made a luminosity mask, whereby I selected the dark parts of the image and ran the noise reduction on that. Then with a soft brush adjusted where needed. A quick, two minute job. I did it in Photoshop though. Don't know how to do it in LR as I don't use it for editing.

burnet44 wrote in post #16392946
I have a 1D2 and people tell me its a pretty good high iso camera
DXO rates it above the 7D and 70D , which I cant figure cuz Ive seen high iso shots from those and they are way better than mine (not a shocker)

I agree with you, Pat, and don't think the 1D2 is very good at high iso speeds. I usually don't take mine over iso 800, although I will go to iso 1600 if I have to but only if it allows me to shoot to the right of the histogram. Because overexposing a bit (without blowing out the whites!!) is often the trick to getting clean images at higher iso speeds. Noise lives in the darks and especially if you have to add light to underexposed images in post, it will increase the noise exponentially.
I'm guessing though that with the dark conditions you have to shoot in, even at iso 1600 you wouldn't get enough light in to overexpose a bit and you would probably end up with more noise instead.

ty mam
your opinion means a lot to me
dude just asked me if I was interested in a 1dIV

seems like people are bailing since the 70d came out

burnet44 wrote in post #16394536
dude just asked me if I was interested in a 1dIV

Are you considering it?

I would love to have a 1DIV but I can't justify spending over $ 3000 on a camera.

Maybe but a 70d is 3x less.