Money Shot!!!!!!!

[Gato Moteado]

.....i mean monkey shot. sorry.

i took this shot this morning....ISO 4500 and plenty of noise. ran it through the AI denoise in Lr:



here you can see the before and after denoise:

[WhiteTara]

1. how grand to have monkeys as

your neighborhood animals.

[Gato Moteado]

16. never a dull moment here!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. The change from the denoise is subtle to my eye. Is the one on the right the post shot?

Anyway, it's a great photo!

Yeah, money shot. You knew we'd come running to see what that was all about!

Did you get my photo?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Subtle only in the sense of being very good & not noticeable unless side by side

I'm impressed. Thanks to the Cat for posting the example.

Yes, denoised on the right. View the photo at 100% and it is easier to see.

[BaronChocula]

8. You can see the noise diff

in the green background.

Sincerely,
BaronChocula Buttinsky

[Qutzupalotl]

4. Reminds me of Paul Ryan

or Eddie Munster.

[justaprogressive]

5. great shot

when's the Nat Geographic special?

[4dog]

6. Can see the denoise in the green on the right, but the monkey

appears to have been sharpened. Looks good, in any case. This capability seems to be spreading but has not reached Affinity Photo, which has evolved faster than my learning how to use it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. I think the sharpening is perceptual due to reduced noise, not actual sharpening

I don't see any sharpening aspects.

De-noising tends to make things sharper, if it is sophisticated. Unsophisticated de-noising tends to make smoother but less detailed.

[ggma]

13. Thank you!

Not a photographer, but understood your explanation.

gg

[PittBlue]

7. How beautiful!

[TrollBuster9090]

9. "Did You Say The Money Shot?"

Ironically, I blame Brian Tobin's downfall on Jack Cafferty...

[ShazzieB]

11. So what were they saying?

The volume is so low on that video that it's barely audible on my tablet. (And no, the volume on my tablet isn't turned down. That was the first thing I checked.) The only words I could really catch were "Hillary" and "money shot."

[Grumpy Old Guy]

12. Looks like a money shot to me!

[druidity33]

14. I kinda like the noise...

it reminds me of film grain. Except for the blue speckles in it's forehead, it just looks like 800 speed film that's been pushed a stop or two.

[Gato Moteado]

15. the blue speckles are....

....the clipping shadows. i made the screenshot directly from Lr and i was displaying the clipped shadows and highlights.