DxO PhotoLab's Deep Prime Noise Reduction ...

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DxO PhotoLab's Deep Prime noise reduction is simply amazing at getting rid of unwanted noise in your images to say the least. Don't get me wrong; I do like the look of film grain in some images and leaving some of the digital noise in our images is perfectly fine but I believe there is a better way to achieve that look than what some or most software does with the click of a button or moving a slider one way or another. I'll leave that for another post.

For this article I will be using an image shot on a Nikon D500 using a Nikon 105mm f2.8 lens.
The technical specs are as follows; ISO 4000, 1/640 sec at f2.8.

There are two things about crop sensor cameras; one good and the other, not so good but not terribly bad either. Crop sensor cameras can get in closer to your subject due to the nature of the crop - this is the good thing. The not so good thing is these sensors tend to product more visible noise in our images. More on the pros & cons of crop vs full-frame sensors in another article later.

In the above image you will notice two images side-by-side, the left one is the original image with no noise reduction applied and the one on the right has DxO's Deep Prime noise reduction applied using just the default settings.

Here are these same two images but larger so you can see the effects of DxO's Deep Prime noise reduction.

The above image has no noise reduction applied ...
The above image has DxO's Deep Prime noise reduction applied ...

If you are completely comfortable with your current software (ie; Lightroom, Photoshop or even Capture One) I completely get it. Not everyone wants to switch from something familiar to something unfamiliar and have to learn how another piece of software functions. I get it - I really do - so try this; DxO has a stand alone piece of software that does the exact same thing as PhotoLab 5 & PhotoLab 6 and is easily integrated into Lightroom like any other plug-in out there.

Let me introduce ...
You can get 30-day trials of all DxO software at DxO.com

Until next time ...


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