Have you ever left your camera’s ISO setting at a high level from shooting dark situations the night before, and then forgotten to change it before shooting the next day? Guilty as charged. The result is a lot of excessive digital noise in the next photos. That’s what happened to me in the photo above, one of my favorite shots during my photo workshop in May.
Modern camera sensors are much better at dealing with noise, but sometimes you need to push the ISO to get a shot. Or, if you’re using a smartphone’s camera, you don’t have a choice and the camera increases the sensor’s sensitivity, which adds the noise.
Macworld just published my review of MacPhun’s Noiseless and Noiseless Pro apps, which use algorithms and a lot of optional manual controls to minimize or reduce that noise without turning an image into a smeary mess. Noiseless also now includes an editing extension for Photos for OS X, so you don’t need to leave Photos to take advantage of the tool.
Read the article here: Noiseless and Noiseless Pro review: Clean up your photos shot in low-light conditions.
[By the way, you can order the top photo as a print! Contact me at jeff@jeffcarlson.com.]
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