Either of these can drastically increase the amount of “noise” in the image. Low light photography involves one or both of these “corrections” to achieve useful images: Either the ISO value is raised to a higher number to force the electronics in the camera to attempt to sense light where it can’t at normal ISO levels, or long exposures (in the order of seconds or even minutes) are used to aggregate as much light as possible over time on the sensor wells.
It also ensures that noise is not irretrievably added to existing imaged edges without my knowledge. I also make sure to not allow my camera bodies to do any form of in-camera sharpening so that I can control this aspect within Photoshop or using Nik’s Sharpener Pro product.
This is helpful in eliminating the effects of overheated sensor wells on the image. I make it a point to shoot with the camera’s noise reduction turned on for both long and short exposures. What makes it simply amazing is how excellent a job it does even in automatic mode. DFine 2 exists simply to reduce color and contrast noise artifacts in photos. While it may not get the spotlight (because it is eclipsed by its more flashy cousins Viveza, ColorEfex, and SilverEfex) it is actually a very important part of a photographer’s workflow especially when that workflow involves High-ISO imagery. One extremely important draw that Nik has, in my opinion, is the wealth of online videos of show-and-tell sessions with seasoned and accomplished photographer guests.Īnyway, one of the smallest tools in the toolsuite is a program called Dfine. As always, there is a 15-day free trial for you to determine if these products are indeed “up to snuff” within your environment.
Formerly, one purchased components (Dfine, Viveza, ColorEfex, SilverEfex, etc.) separately but now Google has a extremely reasonable $149 price for everything. As a Photoshop user, my layered workflow easily accomodated the Nik plugins and now most of my development work lies in Nik layers. Little did I know before I was sucked into their excellent SilverEfex Pro product for Black and White processing and Viveza for all-around processing how much my processing workflow was going to change!īriefly, Nik components work as plugins for Lightroom and Photoshop. Nik has been bought out by Google and is now called the NIK Collection under Google+. As some of you know, about a year ago I was hooked by the (then) Nik Software tools.
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