After a lot of trial and error I have found a secret to less noise in night time shots. If you use the LRenfuse plugin to combine 5 AEB shots the software will actually combine all the information from each shot to effectively increase the dynamic range and lessen noise.
My workflow goes like this:
I shoot in 5 shot AEB with default settings for landscape shots or shots with no chance of ghosting with iso 100 or 200 max.
Then I move the files to my computer and run them through the DJI DNG cleaner.
After that I import them into Lightroom and use the auto stack by capture time feature to sort through all the AEB shots.
The. I use the LR Enfuse plugin to combine the shots and if there is ghosting then I just use the default Lightroom HDR combining method.
Then I export the file to Photoshop and use the google nik color effects pro plugin to make adjustments to color and contrast. I then make any final adjustments to the photo using photoshop and then the final step before saving is to convert the color space to sRGB (from pro RGB)
Then I save a copy of the tiff file using zip compression (don't discard layers or you won't be able to change some things later) then I also save a copy as jpeg for uploading and that is it.
The Google nik plugin is free now, and the LR Enfuse plugin is very cheap but 100% worth it. The Google nik plugin "define 2" also works very well for reducing noise automatically ( you sacrifice only a very slight reduction in edge sharpness) sometimes it is well worth the trade off to save a photo with lots of shadow noise or just lots of noise period.
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