My Pentax is a wonderful camera, but it does tend to have a lot of noise at moderate ISO.
I photographed waves at 400ISO, rapid fire. This shows a lot of noise. Using Smart objects with a blend of mean I combined 20 frames in Photoshop and flattened the stack. This kills the noise. I then inserted another layer above them, auto-aligned, added a layer mask to the single top layer and blocked all of the layer excepting for the wave that I wanted to show.
Well done, it's a very good method. Also used that often. I like the result!
Thank you.
Wow! Nice work going from this first one to the second. The outcome is great! The colors, depth and detail are beautiful!
I am a pentax gal. What camera do you have and what lens did you use for this one. I have a bunch of them (K3, K5, K7 and K10). I mostly use the K3 and don't have noise issues a 400 but then there is a big increase at 800.
I'd be interested in knowing your gear for this shot.
The first picture is under exposed. So if you develop it, you will have more noise. If you use higher ISO, try not to under expose.
Stacking as SmartObject is a good way to reduce noise.
Not underexposed but RAW as shot.
K-3 ii.
My next task is to learn how to use the pixel shift with a moving wave.
Are you sure that works on moving objects? My experiments with pixel shift never worked on moving objects.
That is why I have to learn how to do it.
21 Frames with pixel shift blended in Photoshop and edited very quickly. Not great, but less of a disaster than I expected.