Friday, April 19, 2013

Playdate At the Tree Fort



One of the churches around here has this massive "tree fort" - a man-made combination of stairs, bridges, and nets that go up about 3 stories. 



It's indoors and really nice for a quick, impromptu lunch date. 


 
 
 

So I took the kids the other day. 



I was trying to satisfy a creativity challenge, which was to shoot color photos at very high ISO.  That would normally produce a really grainy image (not pretty). 



One of the tips for the challenge was to play around with noise reduction in post processing. 

 

I didn't see much difference with the color noise reduction, but luminance noise reduction helped smooth out the graininess considerably. 



This is my favorite.  I love all the backlighting.  ISO 6400 SS 1/200 AP f/3.2

4 comments:

  1. That playground sounds amazing! And you did a great job with the processing. They came out really good. :)

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  2. I'm with Ginnie, you did a great job on the processing. To my undeveloped sense of photos, I liked the first one. :-)
    Lucy looks so grown up with that skirt on! What does the badge in the back say?

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  3. I am cracking up at her facial expressions!
    Luminance noise reduction, eh? I will have to try that...if I can find it...

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    1. Yes! It's under the second tab when you're in CameraRaw -- noise reduction and sharpening. It's easy to go overboard with the Luminance, but it's fun to play around with.

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