Oh, that was fun. Reminiscent of shooting for the high school yearbook in the '70s, 'cept it wasn’t so hard to make nice. Back then, it was Tri-X pushed to ASA 4000 with HC-110 developer replenisher…
Average filmic curve, then a rotate to line up the horizon using the trucks, crop because you can only carry so heavy a lens, nlmeans denoise although I could just monochrome it and it’d look like pushed film , a bit of HSL saturation to separate the colors a bit. Oh, and I more-aggressively sharpened at output.
My attempt using ART. The noise isn’t that bad - modern cameras are amazing…
Also darkened the van in the background which I found distracting…
Nice shot thanks for sharing! High iso challenge.nef.arp (14.1 KB)
I try to keep things as simple as possible, I did not go to school for editing. But I always want to bring my noise down. A variable Zoom shows more noise than my 135 prime lens. But that is to be expected. I am comparing a zoom to my Sigma 135 1.8 prime which is probably not fair. LOL
Details here https://bitbucket.org/agriggio/art/wiki/Home
It’s my favourite Raw editor and becoming popular with many others too…
The project is thanks to @agriggio (and of course everybody else who built RawTherapee in the first place)
I think in your situation, low light and shorter shutter speeds, the noise comes from less light to the sensor through the zoom lens. Upping the ISO just lets you use that shorter shutter speed. Your camera is a decent low-light camera, meaning that shot signal-to-noise is managed well into the shadows, so de-noising in post works well. I spent a lot of time trying to acceptably denoise such images from my D7000, but yours from the D75000 was a breeze.
Having a wide aperture and a good sensor keeps one from having to later do shenanigans in the software…
Edit: You are using a wide-aperture lens, went back and looked at the metadata. good shape…
Agreed, I shoot 3000-5000 photos a week andthe D7500 and D500 share the same image sensor and processor. For clearer shoots that are a little closer I use my 135 1.8 at 1.8 and in the same situation I am shooting about 3500 ISO on that. Of course it has much less noise. In Gym I Use the 135 and the Sigma 50-100 1.8 and it is remarkable the difference in noise while shooting at the same exact settings. I think on the football field I am going to go up a tiny bit more on ISO another 1/3rd of a stop and see what I get. I can always go down to 1000 as well on speed.