DxO PhotoLab 5 Series Noise Reduction at it’s finest. In this short article I will examine the 3 Noise Reduction options found in DxO PhotoLab 5. Yes, I know version 6 is out but for my uses version 5 meets my needs although I believe there is one more Noise Reduction option in version 6. I am going to compare 4 separate versions of this image I took while photographing an AHL game for ProHockeyNews.com. This image was shot at ISO 3200 on my Nikon D3s at the Air Canada Centre now known as the Scotiabank Arena which is home to the Toronto Maple Leafs. The only reason I mention this is if I was shooting this at the Toronto Marlies’ home ice, which is not as brightly lit, I would have set the ISO to between 4,000 and 5,000 which would have produced more digital noise. We are going to look at a couple of areas in this image to see how the noise reduction affects different parts of the image. I am going to open four copies of this image; 1) with no noise reduction whatso...