A little help with post editing.

loonie01 · Mar 26, 2018

I took a few pics tonight of the New Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. I'm trying to get better at night shots so any help will truly be appreciated. I have a few more that just came out super grainy. Is there any way to sharpen those up?
1st: f/2.8 1s 3.61mm ISO100
2nd: f/2.8 1/6 3.61mm ISO800

Oh, by the way, I'm using a Phantom 4 Standard

LarBear360 · Mar 27, 2018

loonie01 said:
I took a few pics tonight of the New Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. I'm trying to get better at night shots so any help will truly be appreciated. I have a few more that just came out super grainy. Is there any way to sharpen those up?
1st: f/2.8 1s 3.61mm ISO100
2nd: f/2.8 1/6 3.61mm ISO800

I thought these all looked pretty good. You already seem to know what to do. Certainly ISO 100 is a daylight setting. Nevertheless, I thought the results were satisfactory.

Look into a trial version of Adobe Lightroom. There is a nice sharpening tool in there. In the interim, continue experimenting with ISO as that's where the noise comes from. Keep the aperture as wide open as possible and look for the right balance between shutter speed and ISO.

loonie01 · Mar 27, 2018

LarBear360 said:
I thought these all looked pretty good. You already seem to know what to do. Certainly ISO 100 is a daylight setting. Nevertheless, I thought the results were satisfactory.

Look into a trial version of Adobe Lightroom. There is a nice sharpening tool in there. In the interim, continue experimenting with ISO as that's where the noise comes from. Keep the aperture as wide open as possible and look for the right balance between shutter speed and ISO.

Thanks for the input. I was getting very grainy pics with higher ISO's. I'll keep playing with the settings.

LarBear360 · Mar 27, 2018

loonie01 said:
Thanks for the input. I was getting very grainy pics with higher ISO's. I'll keep playing with the settings.

Sure thing. Anything over 800 ISO is going to serve up some noise, but if you have patience you can find that sweet spot before your shutter is too slow and you start seeing motion blur. Also be sure to shoot in RAW as that will give you more flexibility in post.