Originally posted by creampuff JohnBee, I think a lot of Pentax users are amazed by the way you post process to reduce noise. As a service to the Pentax community, why not publicly share how you go about doing it? I think a lot of people are asking but so far you've not yet responded. I personally think the benefits of sharing is a good way to help shooters of all abilities to enhance their photographic knowhow. For your kind consideration...
I understand, and I've seen quite a few posts asking similar questions(both now and in the past).
The best answer is... I can't count the number of times I've actually sat down and began writing and editing a tutorial for my NR workflow.
I think the biggest issue here is not so much in writing what I do, but in writing so that it ends-up being practical rather than a recipe for a single image or instance.
With this in mind, all of my tutorials began quite well... until they all took flight in what we could only call extremely long and tedious documents.
Even on video(which I've tried), the process ends-up being far to involving to remain practical...
Ex. which slider does what and why? what approach do we take with certain conditions or scenario's? how many scenario's are there? and so on and so forth...
And, though I really don't want to sound like I'm inflating NR into some lofty enigma, the bottom line is, that's its often much easier to do something, than it is to explain it.
However, the good news is... that I have hardly ever used advanced NR in most all of the high ISO samples to date(other than the 51K samples). Therefore... its as easy as grabbing a RAW, developing it and applying NR(no magic, no tricks).
I think alot of people are being mislead by the before and afters, in thinking the NR work is the key, but I assure you... that its the files that are the source of the output and not the editing.
To which I'd say... grab yourselves a few DNGs and see for yourself...