Stewart Baird Photography

A little drama

A bit of drama!  This photo was taken using natural light, there was just enough to light the face.  This is another great example of the Canon 7D’s low-light capabilities, any noise cleaned-up with Noiseware.  I really hope that the makers of Noiseware bring-out a 64-bit version of this super plug-in soon.  It’s my favourite noise reduction tool but it requires me to run Photoshop CS5 in 32-bit mode.  My other main noise reduction tools are Topaz DeNoise and Nik Software Dfine.  To be honest I wouldn’t have bought Dfine by itself; it just doesn’t add-up (cost versus features).Once the noise was dealt with I used a bit Nik Software Color Efex 4 (Dark Contrasts).    Finally I sharpened with a high-pass filter.  The acting… well that was for free!

These tools helped me work the magic:

• Adobe Photoshop CS5
• Canon 7D
• Nik Software Color Efex Pro 4
• Canon 70-200mm f4 lens

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 8th, 2012 at 11:00 AM. It is filed under Daily Photo and tagged with color efex, denoise, dfine, noiseware. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.