Last week was a photo shooting event at the Ninna-ji (a buddhist temple in the norther part of Kyoto) starting at the blue hour. Buildings and light have been beautiful. Unfortunately, the use of camera stands was not allowed and I only brought my Canon R10 APS-C camera to the event. So I ended up with lots of photos taken at >=10000 ISO. White balance and de-noising are a bit tricky. I would like to learn what can be improved.
Gave it a shot…didn’t change much from the looks of it.
But I mainly tackled the exposure and the noise outside of some edits to suit my taste.
Uniform difference mask exposure seemed to give a pretty good starting point for my edit, and the denoise was profiled non local means with a bunch of fiddling until a zoom at 100% looked ok. IMG_2025-06-29_20-01_0106.CR3.xmp (19.8 KB)
Thanks a lot. I think that’s a substantial improvement compared to my edit.
Crisper details, more contrast and the noisy patches in the sky are gone.
Something I’ve messed around with when processing my own astro stacks is using bloom or surface blur on areas without a lot of detail to smooth out areas where denoising has occurred. Gave it an attempt here.
That’s what I have been looking for. Showing me that the photo can be substantially improved, but (“but now really don’t recall all”) keeping the methods a secret .
I’m just imagining you explaining to a medieval ruler that you did indeed turn lead into gold, but unfortunately forgot how you did it…
Who is Saint Germain?
You must mean the Marquis de Montferrat or Count Bellamarre or Knight Schoening or Count Weldon or Count Soltikoff or Manuel Doria or Count Tzarogy?
Supposedly, Saint Germain (spelled it wrong earlier, but you spelled it correctly) supposedly was into Alchemy and also must have found the philosopher’s stone since he supposedly is immortal. lol
Misread your words, earlier Popanz (told you I was tired; lol). I used wavelet denoise (stand alone program; got link, I believe, from GIMPChat many years ago but again, cannot fully remember). It’s one of my favorite GIMP specific plugins, but it has some issues as well, but still does a great job so long as you use it selectively (as I did; mainly just on the fog).
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