Fix High ISO Images Quickly with DXO PureRAW, One Click Solution That Works!!

g'day and welcome to the channel in today's video i want to share with you a piece of software that's impressed me so much i just had to share it with you all that software is called dxo pure raw it basically takes your raw file removes the noise whilst maintaining as much detail as possible it's actually pretty amazing so in this video i'm just going to show you lots of examples of how i use dxo pure raw to remove noise i'm going to use files from my current r6 but i'm also going to go way back in my catalog and pull out some old 7d files i'm going to look at some 5d3 files so you can see just how well it works with all these different raw files from over the years in fact i've even been able to save a few photos i never thought would be usable i'm also going to compare the software to topaz denoise which is the software i currently use to reduce noise and i know many of you have this or i just want to make it really clear that this video is not sponsored by dxo i actually downloaded the trial i've used the trial i'm so impressed i've actually purchased it myself what i have decided to do however is set up what's called an affiliate link so in the description of this video if you click on that link to download the trial or purchase the software i get a small commission and i'm very grateful and that's what helps support this channel so if you are interested be sure to use that link below and i really do appreciate it to make this more interesting for you i'm actually going to put a link to some of the raw files that i use in this video so you can go along with me you can download the raw files download the trial and give it a go yourself so the links will be in the description under the video all right you probably want to see an example so let's have a look i happen to be visiting my mate yarn down in melbourne and i was testing out the tamron 150 to 600 and there was a data in front of us and it was very low light i decided to really push that iso up just to try it out and i used iso 12800 so i really like the pose of this data with its bill open but there was a fair bit of noise visible feel free to download the raw file in the description so that you can have a closer look for yourself so i simply opened up dxo pure it's a standalone piece of software find the raw file drop the raw file into dxo pure raw and then you just hit the button called process processes the photo i then export it into lightroom it imports into lightroom and i can open it up so then open up the two files side by side in lightroom and to say i was shocked as a bit of an understatement dxo has done a wonderful job removing the noise whilst maintaining plenty of detail it has taken on a little bit of a painterly effect as you get with noise reduction but when you view the image after processing in full screen you really can't tell the difference and i actually think this is a big improvement over the original raw file and i suspect it would be very difficult for anyone to guess that this was actually taken at an iso of 12 800. so i happen to be visiting a town called achuca for my day job after work i've gone down to a local river i've laid next to the river and there are some fairly tame pacific black ducks here's the first shot taken at iso 25600 you can see that there's a fair bit of noise in the image and i do like that calling pose with the mouth open but i've put it through dxo pure raw and again it's removed the noise i must admit that the duck at this high iso does have that sort of painterly feel to it but once we process the image what do you think can you tell it's taken at 25 600 would you be happy with this image would you use it so one thing to point out that dxo does make some slight color changes and some slight profile adjustments to the image which can change how the image looks slightly and i'll explain that later on all right so after taking a few shots at 25600 i thought why not try 51 200. so i photographed a heap of ducks swimming past at this really high iso so if we look at the raw file again there's a lot of noise present throughout the image we put it through dxo pure raw and like magic it just removes the noise it's pretty obvious to me that noise reduction has been applied to this image however you know at a pinch if you had to use that high iso you're going to get an image that is you know borderline passable and i think the final processed image here again looks pretty good all right so after that session with those ducks i have to say i'm pretty impressed the fact that i could even take shots at such high iso have the noise removed and still have a usable image afterwards it's kind of groundbreaking in a way because it's going to enable you to use much higher isos than you would traditionally and still be able to get an image that you're happy with but i wasn't satisfied i really wanted to find an image that had the worst noise i've ever taken i actually took an image of a woolly wagtail at 25600 iso but it was heavily underexposed and if we look at the raw file you can see just how dark it is you can hardly make out the willy wagtail here now if i brighten this image and post you can see just how much noise is present it's kind of ridiculous and never in a million years would i ever think this image would be usable all right so let's put this image through dxo pure raw and see how it performs as you can see the results are just remarkable really that you can go from this image to this image with one click shows how far we've come in our software ability to recover or reduce noise all right so now it's important to see how other software handles this exactly same image so the first one i'm going to try is adobe lightroom so lightroom has built-in noise reduction down the bottom of the sliders so let's adjust it to what i believe looks the best when we compare the lightroom noise reduction to the dxo noise reduction there is a clear difference and the dxo one just performs a lot better so as i've mentioned i currently use topaz de noise and if you're interested there is a 15 off discount code in the description now let's put it through topaz denoise and see how it performs so i've loaded up topaz and i've used the severe noise setting i then increased the detail and sharpness which gave me the best results i then exported it back to lightroom all right so when we compare the topaz to the dxo which one do you prefer maybe let me know in the comments either way they've both worked very well and better than adobe lightroom has alright let's do one more comparison between dxo and topaz i went back to the duck that i processed earlier i've put it through topaz de noise and dxo again here's the comparison for you to view can you see a difference do you have a preference of which one you think looks better i think dxo has the advantage of being a little bit simpler you just drop it in the program hit the button and you get your result with topaz you still have to adjust a few different sliders and it just takes a little bit longer alrighty so i thought it would be a fun exercise if i go back through my catalog of bird images and find some images that i didn't actually process because they had too much noise and i want to try and use dxo pure raw to see if i can recover that and actually end up with a photo that i'll add to my collection the first image that i found was this one of a black neck stalk or a jabaru i happen to be in the northern territory a number of years ago i'd never photographed this bird before i got to the swamp really early so the sun i don't know if it did even come up at this point but there was no light whatsoever so i actually ended up having to use an iso of 12 800 i was shooting wide open at 5.6 i think i was using my old 400 5.6 lens that gave me a shutter speed or a ridiculously low shutter speed of 1 30th of a second i'm not sure how i even got a sharp shot at that to be fair i must have been on a tripod from memory at the time i liked this image but there was just too much noise so i never processed it so let's put it through dxo pure raw and see what the final result looks like well here it is this is the processed image after dxo pure raw and i've put it through photoshop as well what do you think of it i'm actually very very happy with it i've got an image that i thought i was never going to be able to use and now i've processed it and i've added it to my website so i couldn't be happier let's go back eight years i was actually using my canon 7d and my 405.6 and a mate of mine and i were chasing these live birds in this dark rainforest sort of setting i knew i was going to struggle for shutter speed but i didn't have any photos of live birds and they're just such beautiful birds so i took lots of photos anyway so the issues i had in this dark forest was i was shooting wide open at 5.6 i really didn't want to use a high iso because this camera is terrible i ended up going to iso 2500 i think which is as high as i'd ever go on that camera and it gave me a shutter speed of sort of one 200 i was shooting handheld because the birds were moving and i was moving and i was just hoping that i'd get something sharp out of this image so this bird came down the path we both took a lot of images and i was really happy when i got these photos they looked okay on the back of the camera but as usual when i loaded it on the computer they were just covered in noise and here's the actual image i processed eight years ago and you can see how bad it is there's just too much noise and overall i was left pretty disappointed all right so here's the processed image after using dxo pure raw i did actually apply extra sharpening to the head of the bird because it was a little bit soft but this is the final processed image and it looks pretty good and when we compare it to my original processed image it's night and day which one i prefer and i've actually updated the image on my website to reflect this new improved version i think it's also worth mentioning that if you shoot in an auto exposure mode like aperture priority or auto iso it's that some cameras have a tendency to under expose those images and that's how i shot this lyrebird the images often end up being a little bit dark which actually increases the noise so if you're having a lot of noise issues using an auto exposure mode maybe have a look at introducing some exposure compensation i've done a video all about exposure if you want to check that out if you want to have some tips when it comes to that so here's an example of what i'm talking about this eastern yellow robin shot i took this an aperture priority the image is actually about a stop underexposed so the camera's got the exposure slightly wrong which means when i increase the brightness in post we get more noise i sound like a bit of a broken record but let's put this through dexo pure raw i put these neo robin through and again it's work magic and it looks just so much better with that noise removed so the final image after processing has come up very well and when i compare it to the raw file again there's a quite a big difference and i'm very happy with the results all right so i wanted to know if i took a shot at high iso applied dxo pure raw how much noise is actually visible like what iso is it equivalent to how much improvement does it actually make it just so happened i took a lot of shots of a jackie winter at different isos while i was testing the r6 so what i've done is i've actually used dxo pure raw on the iso 51200 image and i've got it next to an image with iso 3200 that's had no noise reduction applied so on the screen one of these is iso 51200 the other one is iso 3200 can you tell the difference which is which well believe it or not the image on the right was actually an iso 51 200 image and to me they look very similar so this tells me that dxo has almost got four stops of improvement it's pretty incredible really so if we look at the original raw image of this jackie winter lots and lots of noise but we put it through dxo and it just cleans it up the iso 3200 image is obviously slightly better but again the improvement is extraordinary really okay here's one more example of a superb furion that i took at a real high iso 32 000 again why heaps and heaps of noise i've put it through dxo and it's cleaned it up as you would expect very very well however if i compare that to an image of a theory and i took it iso 1600 the iso 1600 image has a clear advantage there's a lot more detail we don't sort of have that painterly slight effect however we're talking about a massive difference here iso 1600 to iso 3200 so it's just encouraging to me that you know we can use a high iso without too much concern because we're going to be able to recover it using the software i've got one final example to show you and this sort of shows you the power of processing a number of years ago i went to new zealand with a couple of mates and i think i was using my 5d mark iii i was photographing a bell bird which is a native endemic honey editor to new zealand and i just quite like the setting i like the pose however when i first looked at it it just had a fair bit of noise to it and the color wasn't quite right so i've actually put this image through dxo pure raw i've processed the image and boy is there a big difference between the processed image and the raw file and you can see just how better it looks after it's been processed and i really encourage you to actually spend some time with processing and understand it because it can definitely improve your photos let me know in the comments if you like this process version compared to the raw file so what's my conclusion well dxo pure raw is currently probably the best piece of software available that removes noise quickly effectively and simply now it works very well and possibly even better than topaz denoise at high iso however at low iso if you already have topaz de noise then you probably don't need to purchase the second bit of software however if you use an old aps-c sensor micro four-thirds or you're just having a lot of trouble with noise in your images then dxo pure raw could be a wonderful piece of software for you to help in your digital workflow so for me personally i'm going to continue to use topaz de noise for any images up to say iso 6400 because i don't want that noise reduction on the bird and for anything higher i'll probably use dxo pure raw or i'll just use a use case basis if there's too much noise in the bird i'll use dxo pure raw if i don't want anything on the bird i'll use topaz de noise and look you could do the same thing if you wanted to so again please feel free to download the raw files in the description and a trial if you want to try it out for yourself thank you to everyone who purchases the software thank you to everyone that supports the channel if you like this content obviously give it a thumbs up subscribe if you want to see more of these videos thank you to the members that continue to support the channel i really do appreciate it until the next video take care and bye for now see you later first i want to very quickly first i want to quickly explain quickly i want to just quickly i want to highlight all right let's go back eight year let's go back eight years ago i took a shot let's go alright let's go

Channel: Duade Paton

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Length: 14min 4sec (844 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 15 2021