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Event photography

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Erik Baumgartner Senior Member • Posts: 6,893
Re: Event photography
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GMacF wrote:

Lmendy wrote:

I volunteered to shoot an indoor event. About 100 guests in a large room. I will use xt1 with xe2 back up, several primes, 2 manual flashes for bounce and several types of diffusers. I shoot jpeg (Fuji does a better job then my partial color blind eyes). My question is whether I should dial up NR to smooth out skin and diminish noise?

Thanks

‘Absolutely not’ would be my advice. The in-camera NR is the one thing that Fuji have yet to master and it can really ruin a shot - skin/hair and foliage are chief among those things affected.
The first setting I dial in on every Fuji camera I’ve had is the NR back to -4 (or as low as it can go on whichever model).

If your final use case is only a digital screen or small prints you will never notice the noise - even at ISO6400.
But that smeary waxy look that the in-camera NR produces is hideous IMO.

I second this. I would absolutely shoot RAW here but, for jpegs, I’m at -4 NR, always. -4 is still plenty of NR in most cases, and you can always add a bit of NR in post if necessary. If the overzealous camera NR smears the fine detail and plasticizes the skin texture, there’s no undoing that later.

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