Hello I am trying to figure out what I am doing wrong. The image I took is at Iso 1250 and a f stop of 5.6 and 1/2000 shutter speed. It is a canon 7d Mark II with a 400mm f/5.6l lens. The first image is straight out of the camera with no edits except raw file saved to jpeg. The second image is it cropped to show all the noise in the back ground. I know I can clean most of it up with luminance. But I am trying to get a better shot with out having to rely on software so much. Any suggestion of what I can do to make the image cleaner straight out of the camera? Thanks
_61A6189 by rgollar, on Flickr
_61A6189-2 by rgollar, on Flickr