Some of my Daughter at her 7th grade BB game.

That is pretty much all that I do at this stage in my skill level. Maybe some straightening and some slight cropping

NewphotoMan wrote in post #18788284
Pretty sure high iso noise reduction is only applied to jpegs out of camera

Yes, 2 points:

1) Yes NR only occurs on the JPEG from the camera.
2) DPP honors the NR value you set in the camera, so even if you only shoot raw and use DPP, then it will have an impact on your files there as well.

Remind me what DPP is?

Canon's raw processor, Digital Photo Professional... I don't use LR or other raw tools.

Roger. Thank you!

I have a new Mac Air laptop and the newest version of Photos has a much enhanced photo editing suite with many more choices than previously. It now has curves, histogram levels, noise reduction and sharpening. I have not really had a chance to mess around with it very much yet.

Tried out some basketball tonight. ISO was quite high as I was shooting in shutter priority with Auto ISO. Could not really get the shutter speed above 1/500

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High ISO is better than action blur, that is my motto anyways.

I could see a little motion blur in a few shots that I ended up trashing. I need to really start to work on PP skills if I am going to do very much indoor shooting.

To the OP: Do you have more?

Phil

ISO 4000 is "quite high?" I'd love to be at 1/1000-sec and ISO 8000, which is what you have. I'm usually 1/800-sec (the lowest I'm willing to go for HS basketball) at ISO 10,000+

Here is an example of ISO 6400 on the 7D2 when I take the raw through DPP. I strongly suggest that if you don't trust your PP skills, start with that. Generate a JPG from there that you can take to LR and do some NR and sharpening. You can play a bit with the NR sliders in DPP.

Here is "direct from raw JPG" taken from DPP, then a 100% crop, with its post processing with just NR and unsharp mask in Photoshop, something you can do even better in a newer version LR. Sure it is a tiny bit plasticky, but for a sports shot of kids at a game, that is perfectly acceptable.

This will give you more shutter speed.