Im not familiar with ACR at all Wayne but will dip my toe in the water now youve suggested it. Thanks for taking the time to help me, your advice is always spot-on
I cant get Noise Ninja to work on TIFFs at all so Ive been converting to 16 bit PSD in Lightroom then taking that file into CS3 for processing.
Im not sure whether it makes any difference but I purchased Noise Ninja on disk (from G R Enterprise Services) rather than online. No naughty reason, its just that the computer I use for storing photos and which has my PP progs installed isnt connected to the internet. I followed the installation instructions to the letter I think! Maybe I went wrong somewhere along the line and therein lies the reason for TIFF refusal :shrug:
Input much appreciated Erding, cheers
Obviously converted from RAW to Jpeg and resized for the forum but no processing other than that on #1 - this is staight out of camera:
#2 RAW white balanced in Lightroom in an attempt to retain something of the warm golden glow which I thought suited the girl and also cropped in LR. Converted to Jpeg so I could run it through Noise Ninja in CS3 plus a bit of fiddling with the eyes. If I recall correctly, I think I changed this to lab colour and did a two-sharpen pass in the lightness channel. I doesn't look any sharper than the original to my eye
I think that #1 looks the best in terms of noise (its so visible to me in #2, particularly the background adjacent to the subjects right ear). Maybe Im just asking too much of the camera and computer.
My feel free to edit button is switched on and Id really welcome anyone elses take on this. Just tell me what you did and in what order its the workflow Im struggling with. Happy to PM the original RAW straight out of camera if it helps.
p.s. I hasten to add that the proper shots I took with sensible settings turned out very nicely indeed the ISO 3200 + hotshoe flash + slow shutter speed stuff really was just an experiment!