too much noise in my pictures

Donte wrote in post #4243433
This is what I use for noise reduction software

http://www.picturecode​.com/

agree!

You shot that at 1600 iso witch you didn't need for that shot. If you were just trying to expose the screen you could have gotten away with allot lower iso and helped with the noise.

interesting...i will turn my projector on right now and take a pic at each iso level and i will keep the other specs the same

ok so i snapped some pics...i do get better results with a lower iso...but what if i am shooting something bright with a dark background??? wouldn't the long exposure on my subject, if needed, cause noise?

but it sounds like there is no way to eliminate noise 100% unless using some software...i just want to make sure its not something that i am doing.

thanks

You shot in manual, so just set it to spot meter and meter off the screen and you should get plenty of shutter speed with that same aperture.

If you are shooting something bright you won't need a long exposure.
Take for example the moon a lot of people starting out think you need a long exposure because it is at night.
Unfortunately the camera doesn't have the same dynamic range as your eyes so a lot of the time you are shooting a happy medium, expose for one or the other or take multiple exposures and use HDR.

tomdlgns wrote in post #4244708
http://img115.imagesha​ck.us …5/4422/img0569c​opyek1.jpg

there is a link to the pic. i resized it 50% in mspaint just so you guys can see what i see.

i am not shooting on raw, i think that pic was taken at the highest res.

thanks.

Not "too much noise" for the settings used IMO.

scrumpy wrote in post #4243426
Never heard of this before. I shoot nothing but RAW and don't own any noise reduction software. Anyone else know about it?

i don't use noise reduction but i also don't shoot higher than iso 1600.

ed rader

I use NIK DFINE 2.0 and i love it. I think they have TRIAL you could try. www.niksoftware.com

high ISO and under exposed images, can produce large amounts of noise. even more so after recovery of the image... but it's already been said above! ^

Oh THAT noise. Thats "normal" noise I guess. It happens to me too with my XTi on dark surface. I guess that this has to do with the fact that the light just hits the shadow and bring up the noise in that area.

That's not an excessive amount of noise, considering the vast majority of it is appearing in the shadow areas of your photo, which is what I'd expect anyway. There's relatively little chrominance noise there, which is a good thing.

There's often a recommendation to expose to the right when photographing...this means that if you shoot RAW, photograph a scene such that the tones are as far to the right of the histogram as possible without blowing the highlights (ie. pushing the chart too far to the right), and then correcting the exposure back in the RAW processing stage. This maximizes the sound/ noise ratio, hence giving you more good information and less 'bad' information (noise).

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Have you tried using the DPP software that came with your camera? I usually just use that and most of the time it's sufficient.