Boo53
02-06-2021, 1:17pm
I went up to the Tahbilk wetlands one night last week, pre lockdown, to have another attempt to get a passable shot of the resident Azure Kingfisher.
Where I expected to see it would be in heavy shadow but with a bright background so my settings were shutter priority at 1/500 with the Sony 100-400 at 400 on a 1.4 tc. With the TC the max aperture is f8.ISO set to auto. Exposure compensation at +.3.
Just as I was getting to where I thought the bird would be a local was going the other way walking her dog, so if it had been there it wasn't now.
Not to waste my trip I thought I'd fire off a few shots which were bound to be noisey, and see how the latest Topaz Denoise handled it.
Shot off a few of this spoonbill but forgot to turn down the exposure compensation so the highlights are a bit blown and ISO is 10,000.
First shot is the uncropped doc, second is cropped unprocessed and the final is "denoised".
Topaz has done a reasonable job, but I must say I was surprised how little noise there was at ISO 10,000.
A friend mentioned during a talk at a local camera club last month that he uses auto ISO and utilises Topaz DeNoise after that for his (excellent) bird shots.
I've been using Topaz products for a long time and there's been a big improvement in Denise in the last few iterations.
Their sharpening product is also very good although I haven't used it here
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51219494603_1d8710ebd8_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2m36ihx)untitled shoot-057 (https://flic.kr/p/2m36ihx) by boo 53 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/49764331@N06/), on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51219276571_908d8b7f72_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2m35btn)untitled shoot-057-2 (https://flic.kr/p/2m35btn) by boo 53 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/49764331@N06/), on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51219494548_0b3fbd7119_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2m36igA)untitled shoot-057-3 (https://flic.kr/p/2m36igA) by boo 53 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/49764331@N06/), on Flickr
Where I expected to see it would be in heavy shadow but with a bright background so my settings were shutter priority at 1/500 with the Sony 100-400 at 400 on a 1.4 tc. With the TC the max aperture is f8.ISO set to auto. Exposure compensation at +.3.
Just as I was getting to where I thought the bird would be a local was going the other way walking her dog, so if it had been there it wasn't now.
Not to waste my trip I thought I'd fire off a few shots which were bound to be noisey, and see how the latest Topaz Denoise handled it.
Shot off a few of this spoonbill but forgot to turn down the exposure compensation so the highlights are a bit blown and ISO is 10,000.
First shot is the uncropped doc, second is cropped unprocessed and the final is "denoised".
Topaz has done a reasonable job, but I must say I was surprised how little noise there was at ISO 10,000.
A friend mentioned during a talk at a local camera club last month that he uses auto ISO and utilises Topaz DeNoise after that for his (excellent) bird shots.
I've been using Topaz products for a long time and there's been a big improvement in Denise in the last few iterations.
Their sharpening product is also very good although I haven't used it here
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51219494603_1d8710ebd8_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2m36ihx)untitled shoot-057 (https://flic.kr/p/2m36ihx) by boo 53 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/49764331@N06/), on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51219276571_908d8b7f72_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2m35btn)untitled shoot-057-2 (https://flic.kr/p/2m35btn) by boo 53 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/49764331@N06/), on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51219494548_0b3fbd7119_o.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2m36igA)untitled shoot-057-3 (https://flic.kr/p/2m36igA) by boo 53 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/49764331@N06/), on Flickr