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Addressing noise in post

Addressing noise in post

From the course: Photography 101: Shooting in Low Light

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Addressing noise in post

I'd like to go over some basic software tips that will help you get the most out of your low light images when you bring them into the computer. There's a couple of challenges that you're going to constantly be facing when you're dealing with low light photography. One of those is white balance. Especially when you're dealing with mixed lighting situations, where getting the white balance just right may seem kind of elusive. And the second one is noise. When you're dealing with low light photography, high ISO and long exposures, you may find your images are a lot noisier than you're accustomed to seeing. So I want to go through some basic software tips on how to compensate and adjust for those and just get the most out of those photos. Let's start with white balance. As you can see here, I have three different pictures. It's basically the same pose, but the first one is shot with the camera in full automatic mode. The second one is a custom white balance, where I basically pointed the…

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