Originally posted by Michaelina2 It's easy to address what was considered insanely high ISO...
Once you've fine tuned the 'final ' draft of your high ISO image and feel it's still too 'grainy,' take a 'next step' with LR Classic 10.1's Adjustment Brush+Texture slider. Highlight the offending areas in the image and soften things as needed.
Works for me.
Might work for you, too.
Cheers... M
Originally posted by Larrymc Or you could just use DXO PhotoLab 4.1.1 and crank up the DeepPrime AI noise reduction and not worrying about having to brush anything thing to get excellent High ISO images. I still haven't really started cranking my K-3 ISO up much but PL has made my processing so much easier and shortens my time in front of my laptop. Its hard to start getting used to shooting at the upper useable ISO range.....Old habits are hard to break
Like many aspects of photography, image noise and reduction techniques are pretty subjective and personal...
Over the years, having tried and fine-tuned various approaches, I no longer (or very rarely) apply
any luminance noise reduction to high ISO images. I'm fastidious about colour noise, and always seek to remove that as far as possible - but I've yet to use any tool in any raw conversion software that reduces luminance noise without having at least
some impact on detail. As a result, I've learned to embrace the grain and limit my final output dimensions accordingly. There's usually a resolution or size at which even the noisiest of images can be enjoyed without the grain being too intrusive, so I find that and accept it as a justifiable limitation for high ISO shots.
Having said that, I've not tried Lightroom Classic 10.1 or DXO PhotoLab 4.1.1 and DeepPrime AI. I've been using Darktable and/or RawTherapee almost exclusively since Adobe's switch to the subscription model, and find them largely as capable as the stand-alone Lightroom 6 I (RawTherapee, in particular, is excellent at colour noise reduction).
I'm looking forward to seeing (and playing with) raw files from the K-3III at each ISO setting. The KP is already noticeably more capable than my K-3 at high ISOs, and the K-3III should be better still. Pretty exciting