Grainy Photos

"dave" wrote in message

Hi All,

I am hoping that someone will be able to help me.

Took some photos of a martial arts event in a school gym. The gym had bad overhead lighting and I was not able to use flash during fight action. The
result is that my pictures are grainy. I have reduced the noise, improved the colour quality but does anyone know what else I can do in photoshop to improve the picture quality.

Keep your originals in a safe place. Use the free, stand-alone version of Noise Ninja to clean up the noise. Use an aggressive RGB curve to brighten up the images, paying particular attention to skin tones. If you see colored noise in the shadows, convert to Lab mode in Photoshop, blurring the a and b channels to get rid of any remaining chroma noise. Convert back to RGB. Post an example somewhere and some of us will take a crack at it. —

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/

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"dave" wrote in message

Hi All,

I am hoping that someone will be able to help me.

Took some photos of a martial arts event in a school gym. The gym had bad overhead lighting and I was not able to use flash during fight action. The
result is that my pictures are grainy. I have reduced the noise, improved the colour quality but does anyone know what else I can do in photoshop to improve the picture quality.

Any help will be gratefully recieved.

Ana

Hi.

You need to get a Camera with a large Aperture Lens, which will work at a high ISO setting without too much Noise being added to the image.

That way you will be able to get properly exposed images, at a fast enough shutter speed to stop subject movement.

Sorry to be so unspecific, but you have not given very much info about what settings you were using.

The only certain fact is that the gear meeting your requirements will be expensive, perhaps very expensive.

Roy G

On 2006-12-08 11:29:38 -0400, "dave" said:

Hi All,

I am hoping that someone will be able to help me.

Took some photos of a martial arts event in a school gym. The gym had bad overhead lighting and I was not able to use flash during fight action. The result is that my pictures are grainy. I have reduced the noise, improved the colour quality but does anyone know what else I can do in photoshop to improve the picture quality.

Any help will be gratefully recieved.

Ana

check every channel and use blur. Usually the blue channel is suspect when shooting under the conditions you stated but check them all. Individual channel noise reduction can keep som info while removing the bad effect.

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On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 16:40:47 -0400, Papa Joe
wrote:

On 2006-12-08 11:29:38 -0400, "dave" said:

Hi All,

I am hoping that someone will be able to help me.

Took some photos of a martial arts event in a school gym. The gym had bad overhead lighting and I was not able to use flash during fight action. The result is that my pictures are grainy. I have reduced the noise, improved the colour quality but does anyone know what else I can do in photoshop to improve the picture quality.

Any help will be gratefully recieved.

Ana

check every channel and use blur. Usually the blue channel is suspect when shooting under the conditions you stated but check them all. Individual channel noise reduction can keep som info while removing the bad effect.

You can also use noise reduction software like Neat Image http://www.neatimage.com/ , if you’re looking for a one click solution. This seems to do a decent job of removing noise.

Talker

You will have much better luck with noise reduction software. http://www.picturecode.com (Noise Ninja) or http://www.neatimage.com (Neat Image) though there are other programs available too. I like Noise Ninja myself.

ljc

"Talker" wrote in message

On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 16:40:47 -0400, Papa Joe
wrote:

On 2006-12-08 11:29:38 -0400, "dave" said:

Hi All,

I am hoping that someone will be able to help me.

Took some photos of a martial arts event in a school gym. The gym had bad
overhead lighting and I was not able to use flash during fight action. The
result is that my pictures are grainy. I have reduced the noise, improved
the colour quality but does anyone know what else I can do in photoshop to
improve the picture quality.

Any help will be gratefully recieved.

Ana

check every channel and use blur. Usually the blue channel is suspect when shooting under the conditions you stated but check them all. Individual channel noise reduction can keep som info while removing the bad effect.

You can also use noise reduction software like Neat Image http://www.neatimage.com/ , if you’re looking for a one click solution. This seems to do a decent job of removing noise.
Talker