E520 - stacking to reduce noise

Timskis6 wrote:

Hi Brian, many of us have been in your position, myself included, and found that image stacking significantly reduces noise by averaging the noise with over-exposure. HDR is my choice for doing this, though I don't process my images to the surreal HDR extent that is unfortunately characteristic of the term today.

The idea is to take a bracket of photos exposed differently, and use Photomatix to stack the images. Then tone map it as you please, though I tend to tone map to the original colors, etc.

Here's an example of how it work, and how successful it is (not only with low light, but with any shadow noise in general):