Fixing High ISO shots

littlemiss123

Hi all,

I am a photography rookie and accidentally changed the ISO setting on my camera to 12800 while looking for another setting in the menu. I was snap-happy for about 20 minutes before I realised. Is there any way I can fix or reduce the noise on the photos I took? I am gutted to say the least! The photos are in JPEG format.

Thanks.

Sheeps

How bad is the noise? Maybe you could use the noise for as an effect, try black and white with a high contrast? Can you post the images?

ED E

You cant fix it as the data you wanted wasnt saved and then furthermore the "bad" data was compressed.

De-noise filtering may help a little bit, but unless you're on higher end gear the chances are your shots are very very noisy and there'll be limited improvement.

CabanSail

There are some techniques to reduce noise, but to do it well needs a good working knowledge of post production. Even using them it is not miracle solution and will only reduce some of the noise. Working with just compressed data makes this worse.

Homer

Im gonna guess that its not a pro, high end camera, in which case I would say there is not much you can do to salvage them.

Modern high end cameras are getting better at high ISO, as an example the image below was shot with the new Sony A9 at 16,000 and is straight out of camera with no post processing to reduce the noise!

Post an example here if you can and we may get a better idea how bad the noise is.

prusselstown

Email me on one of them to info at athyphotos.com and I will see what I can do.

littlemiss123

Thanks guys. I definitely won't make the same mistake again.

I thought about black and white but I'd really rather keep them in colour. I don't have a good working knowledge of post-production as I am only just starting out with my first camera. I've attached one here. As you can see, the noise is pretty bad

@prusseltown, I will email you another one as an example.

https://www.dropbox.com/l/scl/AABWGyKgsbu9d593NWYBx3LzUIro2tyIhjc

Homer

Seems you have linked to a file on dropbox and I can't see the image?

AnCatDubh

I haven't seen the image (still not showing) but oddly enough, printing may be a lot more forgiving than on screen (an odd phenomenon of some sort or other). I've had an odd photo or two that was *ruined* but worked out nicely enough in print.

As others have said there are some tools which will reduce the effect of the noise, but if it is as bad as you indicate in your post, then i'd be guessing try a print of anything important from your batch (well, try a test print first to see what may come of it before printing a whole batch).

Hope it works out well for you in the end.