KevinRA
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Re: R10 with EF-s 17-55 2.8
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DivaDreamer wrote:
Second, post processing and noise reduction/high iso. You are absolutely correct. I am an old film girl, and have been dragged kicking and screaming into the post processing world. Until now I have made do with Canon and Nikon’s free software, but have decided it is time to finally invest, so I am less leery of high iso. I am not keen on the subscription model, so leaning toward DxO PL6. Better noise reduction will allow for slightly stepped down aperture, leading to more DOF. Software before any lenses. (Though gear is more fun!)
+1 DXO PL6 and Deep Prime is amazing - makes those R10 shots at ISO6400 look great
Which leads to the main issue - pairs and small groups. I am getting lovely portraits and decent wide angle shots, but small groups is the issue. Set in discussion circles, I can not get everyone in the same focal plane, and so I either stop down and risk slower shutter/high iso or compose so the speaker is in focus and the others soft. Pairs of speakers is particularly tricky as the intimacy of conversations are lost.
I would post fails, but not sure if my releases extend beyond church business.
Anyway, reading back over my long post, it feels like software to deal with higher iso is the place to start.
Tricky - but unless one spends time on focus stacking and not normally readily possible with people - hard to get shallow depth of field and multiple people in focus
DxO will crack noise though Colours at default a little different to DPP - but with tweaks I find good. Much prefer DxO defaults on the R10 to Adobe's defaults, plus Adobe is poor at high ISO.
Topaz denoise also get very good reviews and works on jpegs/tiffs etc too.