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Introductions => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: Snetiger on July 31, 2016, 09:19:19
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I have been following Bjørns gear reviews for years and they have helped me tremendously in my choices of lenses and bodies. I am Jens and I come from Copenhagen, Denmark. I spend much time in Sweden taking wildlife and nature pictures.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8888/27996962433_13989a68cd_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/JDZKwR)JNR_6436CNX2s (https://flic.kr/p/JDZKwR) by Jens N. Roved (https://www.flickr.com/photos/zubair-roved_productions/), on Flickr
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Impressive introductary shot.
Most welcome to our wonderful meeting point of skilled people!
Frank
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Thank you! Yeah that is the new D500. Love it to bits and pieces already. :D
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Thank you! Yeah that is the new D500. Love it to bits and pieces already. :D
I have her since beginning May, quite possibly the best camera I ever had, including the D3. The only field where she is a tad behind is IQ and post production capability in ISO higher than 1000.
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Welcome Jens, with this beautiful shot.
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Welcome - I also love the shot!
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I have her since beginning May, quite possibly the best camera I ever had, including the D3. The only field where she is a tad behind is IQ and post production capability in ISO higher than 1000.
Well, I totally agree about the D3. I do not believe however the D500 is lacking in IQ when it comes to high ISO shots - not much anyways. I think it depends on the eyes that see and how much noise bothers you. One of the great advantages if you got a 600/4 like me is that you hardly need to crop anything anymore so you don't lose IQ to cropping as you do with f.ex. the D4 which I owned before. Of course the best of both worlds would be to own a D5 and a 400/2.8 for when it turns real dark and the D500 + 600/4 VR combo that I have but I can't afford a D5 and I am really happy with the 'reach' of the D500 so far.
This one is ISO 20000. I did a bit of post processing on noise but it is easy to remove color noise - much easier than say with a D810.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8616/28052230544_6dd05948df_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/JJT1Pj)JNR_8081CNX2s (https://flic.kr/p/JJT1Pj) by Jens N. Roved (https://www.flickr.com/photos/zubair-roved_productions/), on Flickr
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Welcome Jens, with this beautiful shot.
Thank you. :)
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Welcome - I also love the shot!
Thank you! Love your naturephotos too, Elsa!
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Thank you! Love your naturephotos too, Elsa!
thank you ;D
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Well, I totally agree about the D3. I do not believe however the D500 is lacking in IQ when it comes to high ISO shots - not much anyways. I think it depends on the eyes that see and how much noise bothers you. One of the great advantages if you got a 600/4 like me is that you hardly need to crop anything anymore so you don't lose IQ to cropping as you do with f.ex. the D4 which I owned before. Of course the best of both worlds would be to own a D5 and a 400/2.8 for when it turns real dark and the D500 + 600/4 VR combo that I have but I can't afford a D5 and I am really happy with the 'reach' of the D500 so far.
This one is ISO 20000. I did a bit of post processing on noise but it is easy to remove color noise - much easier than say with a D810.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8616/28052230544_6dd05948df_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/JJT1Pj)JNR_8081CNX2s (https://flic.kr/p/JJT1Pj) by Jens N. Roved (https://www.flickr.com/photos/zubair-roved_productions/), on Flickr
Supershot. Can you tell more about you post processing?
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Welcome!
Beautiful nature shots
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Supershot. Can you tell more about you post processing?
Sure. I opened it in Capture NX-D and removed color noise there by setting of 50 iirc. Luminance set to 0. Then I opened it as TIFF in Capture NX2 and did 30% 10 noise reduction there and added a little touch of contrast (+5). Last step was to add a Vignetting blur to surround the stag and a touch of Vignetting negative brightness surrounding the stag in approximately the same way. I added sharpness and scaled it to 2500 pixels. All set. :)
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Sure. I opened it in Capture NX-D and removed color noise there by setting of 50 iirc. Luminance set to 0. Then I opened it as TIFF in Capture NX2 and did 30% 10 noise reduction there and added a little touch of contrast (+5). Last step was to add a Vignetting blur to surround the stag and a touch of Vignetting negative brightness surrounding the stag in approximately the same way. I added sharpness and scaled it to 2500 pixels. All set. :)
Thank you very much. The idea to create the TIFF in NX-D and use the power of NX2 on the TIFF never came to my mind. My second step is always Photoshop CC
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After you have made a TIFF you can also save that as a new NEF file in CNX2. I do that in order to keep adjustments open. :)
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Frank, PhotoNinja allows the same trick. You can easily process TIFs there.
Welcome to NG, Jens.
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After you have made a TIFF you can also save that as a new NEF file in CNX2. I do that in order to keep adjustments open. :)
WOW, I did not know that either. You just came in and enlighten me. I am at your service, Flickr-Buddy.
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Technically, the NEF is just a special version of a TIF ...
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Welcome, Jens.
Compelling opener, that crane capture!
I like the way how you carefully treat the noise as an pictural element on the night shot.
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Thank you!
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Technically, the NEF is just a special version of a TIF ...
Yeah that's right. :)
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Welcome, Jens.
Compelling opener, that crane capture!
I like the way how you carefully treat the noise as an pictural element on the night shot.
Glad you like both. :)
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WOW, I did not know that either. You just came in and enlighten me. I am at your service, Flickr-Buddy.
Well, I tried out a couple including photo ninja and capture one pro but I didn't like the raw converting in either. I like nikons conversion in CNX2 and now CNX-D. I hate everything else about NX-D so that is why I move them to CNX-2 via Tiff conversion. May not be optimal but the best I can do with what I got so far. :)
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Hi Snetiger
Welcome, you are not alone in having trusted in Bjorns equipment test results, I and am sure others have spent many hours on his web site.
Your BIF image is exceptional as a capture.
I think it would be a interesting exercise, if your ISO 20000 deer could be offered in RAW for others to attempt a noise reduction with their
software, and do a comparison. Just a thought at my end.
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Hi Jens,
I hope you enjoy the group!
Dave
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At one time I was the foremost promoter of Nærfoto Bjørn Rørslett and the lens reviews on the Photo.net Nikon forum.
Dave
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Hi Snetiger
Welcome, you are not alone in having trusted in Bjorns equipment test results, I and am sure others have spent many hours on his web site.
Your BIF image is exceptional as a capture.
I think it would be a interesting exercise, if your ISO 20000 deer could be offered in RAW for others to attempt a noise reduction with their
software, and do a comparison. Just a thought at my end.
Sure John,
I will put it up on Dropbox tomorrow and post a link.
J
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Hi Snetiger
Welcome, you are not alone in having trusted in Bjorns equipment test results, I and am sure others have spent many hours on his web site.
Your BIF image is exceptional as a capture.
I think it would be a interesting exercise, if your ISO 20000 deer could be offered in RAW for others to attempt a noise reduction with their
software, and do a comparison. Just a thought at my end.
Sorry a quick trip to Stockholm to pick up a 200/2 VR set me back on this. I will upload it to Dropbox and post the link here when I am off work. :)
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ufontqvc34oxnc/JNR_8081.NEF?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ufontqvc34oxnc/JNR_8081.NEF?dl=0)
there you go. :)
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Welcome to NikonGear! ;D do feel at home
Copenhagen that's often a meeting point for NikonGear happenings ;D 8)