Little Owl at ISO 12800

Lovely shot
 
den said:
Thats bang on Mike for that ISO range Mike ..
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Thanks Den, like we spoke about last night, very little PP required, exposed to the right, almost clipping the whites, brought the exposure back a little in post, then a little higher than normal NR settings on the RAW followed by a little extra NR on the greens in PS. No rocket science involved!

Mike
 
I processed te RAW in DPP4, using the values Luminance 7 and Chrominance 11 - just a guess based on Arash and Artie guide.

in PS I resized the image, added another layer (ctrl+J) then went to Filter -> Noise -> Reduce Noise, set it at '5' then used a mask so I only affected the BG. I left the bird and rock untouched

Mike
 
I don't see much of a difference with lower ISO files between DPP4 and LR, but I usually use DPP4 anyway out of habit. Might be a difference if I had an expensive 4K screen but I don't!

Once I push the ISO though, DPP4 is the better of the 2, seems to be a little cleaner in my view

Mike
 
I'm surprised, you'd never guess the ISO was that high. Apart from that, an excellent shot. They have a look about them that no other bird has..almost an indignation that they are having something (a lens) pointed at them..:D See it all the time with Den's shots and always brings gives me a chuckle.
 
Very nice Mike, I like the pose, looks good on the rock (y).........Impressed, ISO 12800 from a Canon, not bad :p :D

You've taught me a lot about PP'ing mate and its much appreciated (y) I've started using Nik Dfine 2 as an add on to E14. No doubt you'll know that you can selectively reduce noise using the brush just to the back ground.

Just done a quick pass over the bg, a little more care would be needed so as not to overlap onto the bird.

I've had both images side by side and its definitely clean up more, whats your thoughts?

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Phil-D said:
Very nice Mike, I like the pose, looks good on the rock (y).........Impressed, ISO 12800 from a Canon, not bad :p :D

You've taught me a lot about PP'ing mate and its much appreciated (y) I've started using Nik Dfine 2 as an add on to E14. No doubt you'll know that you can selectively reduce noise using the brush just to the back ground.

Just done a quick pass over the bg, a little more care would be needed so as not to overlap onto the bird.

I've had both images side by side and its definitely clean up more, whats your thoughts?

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Very nice Phil (y).

I got rid of the Nik collection a while back as for some reason it kept freezing the computer and never really got to grips with it. Its certainly knocked the last bit of noise off here, a good tool to have available.

Mike
 
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