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Expert: Wedding Photographics - 9/4/2009


Question
I'm a fairly competent photographer, but I've noticed in some photos of mine that there appears to be noise or color dithering of some sort.  I don't know if it's my camera, the colorspace I'm using, or how it's processed.

For reference, I'm using a Nikon D80 with the AdobeRGB colorspace.  Most of my photos are edited from RAW with Adobe Camera RAW.

Thanks.

Answer

Bride In Car
Hi Kaleb,

I'm sorry but since I can't see any of your images, I can't be for sure what the problem is.  Especially since noise is inherently a product of digital images. You say . . . "or how it's processed".  Are the problems you describe present when NOT processed?

I use Canon 5D cameras and shoot RAW. I output my JPEGs in the sRGB working colorspace, 300 pixels per inch, saved as level "10" baseline standard with a valid ICC profile embedded. For the sake of AllExperts readers, I save as level "10" baseline standard because these are around half the file size as JPEGs saved at "12" and the image quality is the same.

Wedding Photographer John Wilson
Chattanooga, Tennessee
http://www.weddingphotographics.net

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