You got good advice right in this mail. Early (in the process) noise
reduction followed by setting the levels (white and black points and
mid-range brightess). Viewer 2 does do noise reduction but,
unfortunately, it's so slow as to be pretty much worthless. I stopped
there thinking it wasn't worth it to figure out how to fiddle with the
histogram.
If you buy PhotoShop Elements (less than $100) you'll get ACR which will
allow you to do early stage (capture) noise reduction. Fiddling with
the levels is a simple task of moving sliders around.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/25/2013 6:50 PM, Johnie Stafford wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Moose [mailto:olymoose@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 2:53 AM
>> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [OM] Moon Shot
>>
>> On 8/22/2013 7:09 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>> Strange. The larger 2755x2066 images (which are only displaying at
>>> about 50% size on my screen) make the moon appear as though it's
>>> covered by teeny-tiny pock marks. I assume this is some sort of
>>> digital noise or artifacts from display conversions. Do you see that
>>> in your originals, either the full resolution image or the 5+ MP JPEG
>>> image that you uploaded?
>>>
>>> Actually, I just realized that what I'm seeing at 2755x2066 must be a
>>> 1:1 crop out of the full frame. At 600mm (300 + 2X converter) the
>>> image size of the moon is only about 1/4 of the 4/3 frame height.
>>> Maybe ACR can remove that "noise" in its noise removal step... the one
>>> where you're told to review at 100% or greater.
>>
>> There's something wrong here. That level of 'noise' is just not what the
> E-M5
>> does at ISO 200. Could be some combination of brightening underexposure
>> and/or over processing without prior NR. It has the 'wormy' look of such.
>> Maybe too much LCE (Clarity slider in LR)?
>>
>> Moon shots have a very narrow DR for the moon itself. First steps that are
>> often useful are NR and using Levels to spread the histogram and set the
>> midpoint. Then fewer other adjustments are necessary.
>>
>> Those two steps alone, on a small JPEG already over processed in some way,
>> make a dramatic improvement in this image.
>>
>> Level Headed Moose
>
> No Lightroom at all. At the time all I had was Olympus Viewer. I'm just
> trying to learn how to digitally process images. I got my copy of LR late
> this week and that just gives me more options to get my arms around. Now
> give me an enlarger and some trays and I could probably make something nice
> out of a moon shot.
>
> So I appreciate any and all digital processing advice. Speaking of which,
> there are a million resources out there for how to process raw images. Could
> I get some recommendations?
>
> TIA
>
> Johnie Stafford
> McKinney, TX
> jms@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
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