Summary: Photography podcast #91 discusses 3 common‚reasons‚we get noise in our photographs and we offer tips on how to beat that noise. For the purposes of this podcast, noise is the appearance of coloured‚specks, ‚monochromatic‚specks or bands/lines that appear in your photographs (often in uniform areas like the sky or in the shadowy parts of the image) that should not be there. This image from OKA Park looks pleasing enough and looking at it here you might not know that the image was underexposed. I boosted the levels in Photoshop so at first glance it looks pretty good. HOWEVER, this 100% crop from the same image reveals the noise (colours in the snow) due to underexposure. TIP - Don't automatically underexpose. Underexpose the scene only when necessary. Links /resources mentioned in this podcast: Cambridge in Colour article on noise Noise Ninja Dfine Topaz Denoise Shiny‚is the regular assignment this month on our photography forum Ton sur Ton is the level 2 assignment this month on our photography forum Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook If you liked this podcast and want to review it on Itunes, this link gets you to the main page My Facebook profile - Feel free to "friend" me - please just mention Photography.ca My Twitter page - I will follow you if you follow me - Let's connect - PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don't reciprocate because I think you are a spammer. If you are still lurking on our forum, feel free to join our friendly :) Photography forum Thanks to rabs, Lee Sacrey, Las Vegas Weddings, Charles binns landscape photography, and Michael Van der Tol who posted a blog comment about our last podcast. Thanks as always to everyone that sent comments by email about our last podcast. Although ALL comments are appreciated, commenting directly in this blog is preferred. Thanks as well to all the new members of the bulletin board. Most of the links to actual the products are affiliate links that help support this site. Thanks in advance if you purchase through those links. If you are looking at this material on any other site except Photography.ca - Please hop on over to the‚Photography.ca blog and podcast and get this and other photography info directly from the source. |Subscribe with iTunes |Subscribe via RSS feed |Subscribe with Google Reader |Subscribe for free to the Photography podcast - Photography.ca and get all the posts/podcasts by Email You can download this photography podcast directly by clicking the preceding link or listen to it almost immediately with the embedded player below. Happy Holidays everyone and only the best for 2011 - thanks for listening and keep on shooting!
