As you may have noticed if you’ve been following this blog, I mean the real people not all that spambots, I like making photographs in low light or otherwise inopportune moments. this usually means that my iPhone photographs are usually quite noisy. But now I have been accepting that noise as a part of the process, which it is, sort of the equivalent of using very high speed color film.
I’ve just downloaded a trial version of Adobe Lightroom 3 and I must say I am quite impressed with its noise reduction capabilities. A few months ago I had made the decision to switch permanently from my room to Apple’s Aperture application. I can see now that the decision was quite premature. The image that I’ve posted below this shows the before and after of a photograph I took at night with the iPhone. Before I used Lightroom’s noise reduction, and after I applied the lightroom’s noise reduction.
Note the images still not perfect, or at least it does not look like it was shot with an expensive camera on a tripod etc. It still does have the appearance of having been taken by a small hand-held camera. It just doesn’t look as though someone took a potato gun full of dyed potatoes and shot it at the frame.
I think I will be purchasing an upgrade to the software very very soon.
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