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We did some biking with the little girl today. I made some shots in action from my bike! The shots were taken at ISO 800. This returns an awfull lot of noise; almost useless if you want to crop it and show it real-pixes-size on the web! However, having a filter (find edges), you can make something colorfull of it.

There are tools to improve images like this. The drawback is that they remove a bit of sharpness. In the following part I show some examples.

I used a demo of Neat Image 2.11 to remove nois and got the following results (which is quite acceptable in some areas).

• Skin tones are quite good optimized:
  


• The brick wall gets quite blurry and stones almost removed from the optimized image although this might not be obvious ona print:
  


• The concreate wall gets very well optimized as the tone is smooth:
  


• The trees, leaves and grass look very weird to me. Here and there you see blurry blobs in the image:
  
  

Another little advantage it that the neat image optimized file compress better (1.8x) as they contain less colours and less noise. The image is taken with a CoolPix 5700, ISO 800 on a sunny day. I used a demo of Neat Image v2.11 with the default coolpix 5700 profile.