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Stephen Shoff |
While I don't think I can turn this into a portfolio quality picture unless I find a way to deal with the excessive noise particularly in the snow on the ground, I thought I'd share it with the Phellos. This was taken about 9:00 PM on a January night.
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Jeff E Jensen |
I love the moodiness of this, Stephen. there's just something I love about night shots like this.
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Dale Hardin |
No fair, Stephen. We don't get to see stars in Southern Calif. I like this and see no evidence of noise in a small rendition such as this. I would think you could minimize the noise using the tools at your disposal. You could certainly apply a more aggressive correction to the snow using a mask.
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Jeff E Jensen |
Dale, you always say that about the stars in California. I was in downtown San Francisco last week, and could see the stars.
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Stephen Shoff |
Thank you, Jeff. The moodiness of the moonlight reflecting off the granite walls along with the storm blowing through are the things that I wanted to share in this image. However, to Dale's comment, San Francisco isn't in Southern California. And you were in San Francisco, not downwind from San Francisco. But Dale, Joshua Tree and Big Bear are closer to you than Yosemite is to me. Dale, I used more aggressive and creative noise suppression in this image than I've ever used before...including a gaussian blur layer over the snow and in the trees. Even so, there is banding visible in snow at the bottom of the picture that Nik Define couldn't suppress.
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Susan Williams |
What a beautiful capture, Stephen. Based on my own experience, sometimes noise and artifacts are introduced during the editing process (particularly with plug-ins) and that type of noise is impossible to get rid of entirely. I am wondering if your original has less noise than the image posted. It may be that you have other images captured at the same time where you can "borrow" the snow for this one. But at any rate, I don't see anything here that offends the eye. It's truly beautiful and a very strong image.
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Stephen Shoff |
I've re-worked it. Definitely think the snow looks more like snow now than mush.
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