It was late afternoon (around 8PM) when this baby came down to rest on a post, I had to crank up the ISO on 50D to 3200 to get a shot, as a result the photo is extremely noisy. I used DPP's NR (6 luminance, 20 chrominance) to get rid of the big color blotches. Then I used NeatImage to get rid of the finer grain, there was still a lot of banding left in the BG so I used PS to select BG and apply heavy Gaussian blur. I also used blur brush to touch the residual artifacts. It took about 30 min to do all this. Now the question is if it is really worth trying to salvage high ISO shots? Here is the final image
50D + 400 f/5.6 @ f/5.6 1/320sec ISO 3200.
Do you find this photo acceptable :confused:?








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