I have been working with some images in Digital Camera RAW and noticed an interesting noise results when I am moving the sliders around for fill lighting. The image was metered from strong overcast backlighting and when I use a fair amount of fill lighting from the slider in the Digital Camera RAW in Adobe Bridge CS5 I get alot of noise showing up in the tan tones of a cedar waxwing - see original and adjusted copy attached in separate post. The interesting thing that happens when I start to slide the slider before I release it - the noise disappears an a more pleasing image results - until the slider is released.
I am learning how to make better shots - so aside from starting from a better starting place (I will take advice there too!) I am curious how to better process my images to get the noise out when an image is not shot with the histogram enough to the right.
Is this when I should get a CS Plug-In like Noise Ninja? Or can I solve this in Photoshop with better skills. Here is the adjusted image.







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