my turn...Swarovski

[xl1]

85mm f/1.4, sharpen at PS and Neatimage

[r52lanc]

IMHO, Neat Image makes the skin look like plastic. Rubber women .

Overprocessing ruins a photo.

[Luval]

juicy ...

[Composition]

Where was the event held ?

[billitone]

nice shots Adri....

[2100]

Nice shots. But have to agree, NI too much. And also oversharpened for 2nd pic.

One symptom of over NR is plastics. Another symptom is the colour posterisation effects. You can see it very very slightly on the inner legs in the 2nd pic. If you blow it up, maybe can see clearer.

I always used quite strong NI NR for my iso1600 AD pics until i found that it took up too much time and have such side-effects. Now i just like the grain (Nikon D70).

If you are using LCD, just relax lor, noise will surely look much worse on it compared to prints and CRT, unless you have a better than 18-bit display.

85/1.4 really nice bokeh.

[xl1]

thanks for the comments guys, yes it is to much NI i think, but the reason to NI that much is i can see some scarf at the stomach at left picture, but have to agree will looks like a plastic doll at the end, hehehe

next time must be better....

[John Tan]

Originally Posted by xl1 thanks for the comments guys, yes it is to much NI i think, but the reason to NI that much is i can see some scarf at the stomach at left picture, but have to agree will looks like a plastic doll at the end, hehehe next time must be better....

Best work I had seem so far .... I kind of like the neat image effect. U are using 85F1.2L? May I know what is the setting for using the NI? I'm yet to get it as I had give it try but it can't get better from the original from ISO1600...when I using 20D.

[xl1]

Originally Posted by John Tan Best work I had seem so far .... I kind of like the neat image effect. U are using 85F1.2L? May I know what is the setting for using the NI? I'm yet to get it as I had give it try but it can't get better from the original from ISO1600...when I using 20D.

thanks, yep canon lens, im using the setting at NI and i change the noise reduction Y between 35 to 60.

[digipat2003]

very nice

me also like the NI effect very much

[joshuaB]

just new guy in town....what is NI?

[xl1]

Originally Posted by joshuaB just new guy in town....what is NI?

NI = Neat image

Neat Image is a digital filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain in digital photographic images. It is a tool for owners of digital cameras, flatbed and slide scanners; and is for use by both professional photographers, and digital image processing enthusiasts.

Neat Image not only reduces the high ISO noise associated with image sensors in digital cameras and scanners, it can also reduce the film grain visible in scanned slides and negatives, JPEG artifacts of overcompressed images, and color banding, and at the same time makes images sharper. Neat Image is indispensable in low-light, wedding, sport, and action photography.

http://www.neatimage.com/

[John Tan]

Originally Posted by xl1 NI = Neat image Neat Image is a digital filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain in digital photographic images. It is a tool for owners of digital cameras, flatbed and slide scanners; and is for use by both professional photographers, and digital image processing enthusiasts. Neat Image not only reduces the high ISO noise associated with image sensors in digital cameras and scanners, it can also reduce the film grain visible in scanned slides and negatives, JPEG artifacts of overcompressed images, and color banding, and at the same time makes images sharper. Neat Image is indispensable in low-light, wedding, sport, and action photography. http://www.neatimage.com/

Thanks for your link.