A little noise

Greetings. This started with an experiment with my 85mm tilt/shift, max tilt, f/32 ISO3200 1/1600 HH for a very underexposed shot- lifted 5 stops in LR boosted darks & saturation, too...

Actually not too bad at this point, but had "a little noise". Used DAP to repaint sans noise (portraitist)... some additional detailing. A rare flower shot for me:

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Thanks for looking...

Cheers,

-Michael-

Great OOB! Love the way you've turned a potential throw-away into a keeper. I'm not familiar with DAP...and it doesn't seem to be listed on the acronyms page. What does that stand for?

Jon,

DAP is Dynamic Auto-Painter... It's a fun tool that uses a photo as a guide for painting an image using digital brush strokes. Not a filter.

Thanks for commenting.

Cheers,

-Michael-

Michael, great colors and composition. I like the effect you got from DAP:S3:

Wonderful happy bright colors. Nice processing :S3:

Cheryl, Maureen,

Thanks much for the comments. While I like the OP for what it is, I found myself missing the detail of the original capture (though very dark) and reworked the image, just accepting the noise. I blended the color of the OP DAP version with a boosted and toned version of the original capture. Oddly, it was a bit challenging to maintain a consistency to the noise rather than just trying to reduce it (it's just too noisy for noise reduction to look good).

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I'm a bit happier with this version.

Thanks for looking.

Cheers,

-Michael-

Michael, I really like what the filter did for this one! Nice job.