Jeff Schewe has been an award winning Advertising Photographer in Chicago for over 30 years. He is accomplished in tabletop, location, portraiture and particularly accomplished in computer imaging.
Jeff shoots a variety of subject matter and likes t...
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Did you know that today in 1990 is when Photoshop 1.0 shipped? Yep, February 19th, 1990 Publishers Note: The following text and images are from Jeff Schewe. No one I know is more familiar with the history of Photoshop, Lightroom and Adobe...
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This is the story of how I started learning a way to really screw up my images in an artful and playful manner. It’s all about having fun… It seemed like a good idea at the time-to get away from the...
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By Jeff Schewe with Kevin Raber With Video Below What is soft proofing, and why should you care? Soft proofing in Lightroom or Photoshop (or a few other applications) uses color management to predict how the colors in your image will reproduce...
Read moreI always get a kick out of people doing comparisons and make definitive judgements without actual expert capabilities in various software. But, if you know what you are doing and take care in post processing I think you’ll be hard pressed to find a better noise reduction capability that what’s found in ACR or Lightroom’s recent versions. Doubt me? Take a look at these…
So, I’ve been known to occasion;ly make mistakes. This one is when I was shooting a portrait of a friend of mine for a project loosely titled: “Photographers in Front on my Camera”. In this case I traveled to River Falls, WI to shoot my friend Carl Corey. I was using a new portrait rig of small LED lighting that can be packed into a 7″ x 7″ x 25″ case. I knew from previous testing that I could use higher ISO’s and “get away with it” but I screwed up…I had my Nikon Z7 set to Auto ISO…I don’t remember why. But everything looked good when I shot it. When I got home and imported the files, I noticed something really odd when I zoomed in…they were noisy as hell. Turns out I had ended up shooting the shots at ISO 20,000. Eeeeeek! I though the whole thing was a big washout and I would have to reshoot. Then I remembered Lightroom’s Enhance function for AI assisted noise reduction…
The images were processed with about a 65 setting with no other adjustments. I did screen captures, the image on the left is the Enhanced Noise Reduction DNG, the image on the right is the straight shot at ISO 20,000 both at 400% zoom in Lightroom’s Compare module.
Still think Camera Raw and Lightroom suck at handling high ISO noisy images?
I didn’t think so…
I always get a kick out of people doing comparisons and making definitive judgements without having actual expert capabilities in various software. But, if you know what you are doing and take care in post processing I think you’ll be hard pressed to find a better noise reduction capability that what’s found in ACR or Lightroom’s recent versions. Doubt me? Take a look at these…
So, I’ve been known to occasionally make mistakes. This one is when I was shooting a portrait of a friend of mine for a project loosely titled: “Photographers In Front Of My Camera”. In this case I traveled to River Falls, WI to shoot my friend Carl Corey. I was using a new portrait rig of small LED lighting that can be packed into a 7″ x 7″ x 25″ case. I knew from previous testing that I could use higher ISO’s and “get away with it” but I screwed up…I had my Nikon Z7 set to Auto ISO…I don’t remember why. But everything looked good when I shot it. When I got home and imported the files, I noticed something really odd when I zoomed in…they were noisy as hell. Turns out I had ended up shooting the shots at ISO 20,000. Eeeeeek! I though the whole thing was a big washout and I would have to reshoot. Then I remembered Lightroom’s Enhance function for AI assisted noise reduction…
The images were processed with about a 65 setting with no other adjustments. I did screen captures, the image on the left is the Enhanced Noise Reduction DNG, the image on the right is the straight shot at ISO 20,000 both at 400% zoom in Lightroom’s Compare module.
Still think Camera Raw and Lightroom suck at handling high ISO noisy images?
I didn’t think so…
