Topic: Ho do i reduce noice while shooting in the dark?

Iv taken a few exaple frames,  one raw and one iv fixed up in PS. so il let you have a look at those before i carry on.


|EXAMPLE 1|
#1 (RAW)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6238/6330586812_9ea613ebd0.jpg

#1 (fixed)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6107/6329833981_1324c037b3.jpg

As you can see the raw one has a large amount of noise and is quite distracting, but the fixed up one is blured and missing some color.

|EXAMPLE 2|

#2 (RAW)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6112/6329834113_9fbf969c90.jpg

#2 (fixed)
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6108/6316874304_01a999a858.jpg

Note that the noise is not as bad as before, due to the added light.

So anyway i was hoping someone had done a night shot before and could give me some pointers about getting rid of this noise.  Also i am shooting this with a QCP 9000 and im not interested in doing the night effect in post, i like the way the blue lights turned out and i don't think it would look as nice if it was done in post.

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Re: Ho do i reduce noice while shooting in the dark?

Frame averaging is your answer. Do you use a frame capture program?

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Re: Ho do i reduce noice while shooting in the dark?

i shot these with the QC softwear but i have monkey jam and helium frog too.

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Re: Ho do i reduce noice while shooting in the dark?

minifig051 wrote:

Frame averaging is your answer. Do you use a frame capture program?

I agree, frame averaging helps greatly (it works best when set around 10). In Helium Frog, you can go to the settings (I forget where they are; I haven't used it in a while), but I don't know how to do it in Monkey Jam. It also helps to have at least 3 lights on when filming a night scene, and just have the exposure turned down low.

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Re: Ho do i reduce noice while shooting in the dark?

Do you use Sony Vegas? If so, shoot it while it still is semi-bright, then under (i think) color curves, select the night effect. Works wonders. Experiment a bit with how much light you need first though.

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Re: Ho do i reduce noice while shooting in the dark?

Use a bit more light and turn down the exposure. And make sure to use frame averaging as mentioned above

Re: Ho do i reduce noice while shooting in the dark?

Dragonvader wrote:

Use a bit more light and turn down the exposure. And make sure to use frame averaging as mentioned above

Dragonvader, while it's nice that you want to contribute to the forums, please don't bump threads in which a question has been answered. Not bashing, just giving a reminder mini/smile .

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