I am into HDR photography these days,the main problem i am facing with HDR is noise, i have my camera on the lowest ISO but still there is a lot of noise on the end result.
any advice would be helpful.
Here are some of my shots
If you are seeing "noise" in the final processed images and not in the original images then you aren't seeing noise at all. You're seeing grain created during tone mapping.
Grain is caused by excessive local compression in the tone mapping process. It can obliterate details, just like noise, but details are recoverable by making the key adjustments that lower compression. Grain is most common in the dark portions of cloudy skies.
Some settings to adjust to minimize grain:
Grain – Try these controls and notice that they all affect compression.
Lower the Strength – affects compression
Lower the Luminostiy – affects compression (can counter darker tone with Gamma adjustment)
In the Miscellaneous window raise Micro-smoothing, Highlights Smoothness, Shadows Smoothness
Lower microcontrast – affects compression
i just started HDR a few days ago... And i was using Photoshop for (fake hdr) but today i took my first Real HDR (with the cam, 3 shots, dif bracketing etc) and i used Oloneo beta and i like it .
@xptx i use Photomatix(Tonemapping), Photoshop(Adjustments) @meshinka@wahyusp thank you for the advice,
But while using noise reduction softwares i am losing some detailing further the picture is becoming soft,
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Grain is caused by excessive local compression in the tone mapping process. It can obliterate details, just like noise, but details are recoverable by making the key adjustments that lower compression. Grain is most common in the dark portions of cloudy skies.
Some settings to adjust to minimize grain:
Grain – Try these controls and notice that they all affect compression.
Lower the Strength – affects compression
Lower the Luminostiy – affects compression (can counter darker tone with Gamma adjustment)
In the Miscellaneous window raise Micro-smoothing, Highlights Smoothness, Shadows Smoothness
Lower microcontrast – affects compression
i just started HDR a few days ago... And i was using Photoshop for (fake hdr) but today i took my first Real HDR (with the cam, 3 shots, dif bracketing etc) and i used Oloneo beta and i like it .
You can see the picture here:
REAL HDR (3 shots, bracketing, low iso etc) http://365project.org/xptx/365/2011-04-28
FAKE HDR's: (1 shot edited)
http://365project.org/xptx/365/2011-04-20 http://365project.org/xptx/365/2011-04-21 http://365project.org/xptx/365/2011-04-23 http://365project.org/xptx/365/2011-04-25
@meshinka @wahyusp thank you for the advice,
But while using noise reduction softwares i am losing some detailing further the picture is becoming soft,