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mike from ebbw

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please have a look at the attached pic of a little grebe i took on saturday.as you can see due to the high iso and the conditions it came out really noisy.i have tried to get rid of the noise in photoshop and neatimage but due to being fairly new at using these programmes this is the best i can come up with.please feel free (if you are bored that is) to have a go.
cheers,mike.
 

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I'm bored all right - off work for a week and miserable weather :-C

Any better?
 

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Or Maybe This!!!!!
A great original shot as it is anyway Mike.
 

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Mike, there is nothing wrong with your shot other than that it was taken in drab, grey, flat light (but Bob has made a good job of resurrecting it).

Colin
 

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thanks everyone for having a go.i wish i had the light you had when you took yours colin.what programme did you use bob?that is one hell of a difference!
 
Yo Mike,

Just got back on BirdForum and found your Thread!
How do I save this image to mess about with?

Gary
 
Not much noise in there at all, but some visible at 300% in photoshop.

I put this one through Picture Cooler and then re-sharpened the bird. Result is similar to Bob's.
 

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That's weird, I tried that in the first place and ended up with a small thumbnail, now it's saved OK....... must be the homebrew!
Here's my effort.
To be honest I thought the original was fine.
If you shoot at a high ISO/ASA you'll get noise and any manipulation will degrade the image to some extent. Also, anyone trying to re-manipulate and resave as a JPG will never match the origianl posted image due to further compression!
 

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Gary Howells said:
That's weird, I tried that in the first place and ended up with a small thumbnail, now it's saved OK....... must be the homebrew!
Here's my effort.
To be honest I thought the original was fine.
If you shoot at a high ISO/ASA you'll get noise and any manipulation will degrade the image to some extent. Also, anyone trying to re-manipulate and resave as a JPG will never match the origianl posted image due to further compression!

Yup, just to repeat what I and others have already said, the original shot was fine and didn't shout "noise" to me. I think that some of the attempts to improve it have been over-sharpened and give a "synthetic" look (Bob's is the best, though).

I just chucked my shot of a juv. Little Grebe in because I liked the lighting and the dappled shade on the bird from the reed stems. This is a heavily cropped shot (the bird was about 80 metres away as far as I recall) with no post processing.

I often go to this locality (the lake at Quinta da Lago) and have taken many hundreds of shots of the same species of grebes, ducks, etc under very different light conditions and know that if the lighting in the original (JPEG or RAW) is not good then any amount of post processing will not make a drab shot perfect.

Colin
 
Here's my try :

1- I would crop it a bit differently ( thats why i cut out your signature , sorry ) . - A matter of composition .

2- Photoshop . ( S\H , Levels, contrast, colors, usm )

I don't find your photo to be noisy , it has turned a bit noisy after the crop .
( on the original i would expect almost no noise ) .
Neat Image did not help in this case...
 

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thanks again everyone.i think if i had the original back from the processers when i was using film i would have been chuffed to bits.i find since turning digital i have become a lot more fussy.
 
mike from ebbw said:
please have a look at the attached pic of a little grebe i took on saturday.as you can see due to the high iso and the conditions it came out really noisy.i have tried to get rid of the noise in photoshop and neatimage but due to being fairly new at using these programmes this is the best i can come up with.please feel free (if you are bored that is) to have a go.
cheers,mike.

I wish all my pictures were as disappointing lol looks good to me
 
mike from ebbw said:
thanks again everyone.i think if i had the original back from the processers when i was using film i would have been chuffed to bits.i find since turning digital i have become a lot more fussy.

Mike,

If you ever become satisfied with the shots you take, you will cease to improve.

Colin :brains:
 
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