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 08/03/2006 12:51:11 PM · #1
I need help. I am getting a lot of noise in my pictures when it's dark. I have been told to lower my ISO but then the picture doesn't come out at all because I don't have a tripod and I can't keep from moving as long as the camera takes. Please help!

Also I have tried to white balance my camera because my pictures come out with a lot of red. It only made it worse. I did it with in a room with GE's pure light, light bulbs and using the purest white posterboard I could find. Am I doing it wrong? I've never balanced a digital camera before, but the above method is how my video class did it with video cameras.

08/03/2006 12:57:26 PM · #2
Video balance with a white opject. Still cameras use 18% gray, a gray card. there are a number of products on the market that are this. often you shoot the card and then just shoot your stuff, and then in PP you can use the first image with the gray (and often black and white) to color correct the image in photoshop etc.

as you have less light you need higher ISO - more sensative to light. dSLRs are quite good at up to ISO 1600 these days, but most p&s's still struggle at ISO 400.

Check out a program called Neat Image. there is a free version and it removes noise from your images. works rather well.
 08/03/2006 01:12:47 PM · #3
Thank You! I'm looking into neat image now. :)

08/03/2006 01:15:27 PM · #4
I believe neatimage's free one is limited to a certain number of uses, but I could be wrong. I use Noiseware, which is shareware or a paid version. The free one is stand-alone only, and can only be applied to the whole image, but seems to work nicely and is easy to use :)
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