Salisbury cathedral...denoising

[lockdown]

Hi all. I’m interested to see how you approach denoising this image of Salisbury cathedral on a rainy night, handheld.

Thanks

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[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

I fiddled with the settings in Denoise (profiled), then used Diffuse and Sharpen’s Denoise: Fine preset. Maybe not great, but a lot better.

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[kap55]

I used denoise (profiled) , diffuse & sharpen (denoise medium) as well as a custom adjustment in contrast equalizer. I find every image seems to need it’s own denoise treatment so I pretty much start from scratch every time I have a photo with noise.

On a side note - it really is amazing to see what can be achieved with a high ISO such as 6400 compared to a few years ago.

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[lockdown]

Thanks. D&S does make a difference, but since my laptop lacks a dedicated graphics card so D&S does take a while (depending on settings) - but not so much as to be unusable.

[lockdown]

Thanks. I like the way you’ve added a touch of sharpening to the denoise in contrast equalizer.

I bought a Fujifilm X-H2S a while ago, and while it’s excellent for wildlife I still like to use the venerable X-H1 for stuff like this. It’s amazing how much detail can be dredged out the shadows with the older sensor. Edit to add…lots of details in the shadow from the X-H2S sensor as well, but there’s maybe 1\3 to 1\2 stop more noise with the (stacked) X-H2S sensor.

[Popanz (Uli)]

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[witsu (Witold)]

My version…
RawTherapee 5.11 + Gimp.

[lightlover]

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[gigaturbo]

Here’s a version with bloomed highlights and denoised shadows:

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[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

Here is my effort deliberately avoiding the DorS module as you don’t have a GPU.
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[Sunhillow (Hansgeorg Zauner)]

Tried a combination of classic and wavelet denoise here. And then “denoise by downscaling”
Sure not the best result, but I tried not to lose too many details

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[Thierry007]

With Art 1.24.5

[Thomas_Do (Thomas)]

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[lightlover]

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More denoised (masked).

[Dito_Budi]

I’m bad at denoising. Just use profiled one with some tweakings.

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[priort (Todd Prior)]

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[123Max]

A little off-topic, an experiment with the DxO PureRAW 3 noise suppressor, in the menu - the Deep Prime XD algorithm, then the usual editing in RT:

[Popanz (Uli)]

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[RG.photos (R G)]

RawTherapee 5.11 for most of the edit, GIMP 2.10.38 just to see how some of the “enhance” filters are working. Rarely go this deep into editing an image, i used to use a Nikon D7100 as my primary camera, so low light/high ISO was a hot stove I learned not to touch haha.

[RG.photos (R G)]

Ugh, I didn’t really look at the image after I resized it down to 1080x1600, and converted to .jpg. And also didn’t think GIMP actually improved the image in a noticeable way, so here’s the version right out of RawTherapee 5.11, I only used GIMP to crop, resize, and export as a .jpg.