Here Tim, this was my second run with a special plug-in, problem is though that you see artefacts at full size




The one from father Ted looks very nice

Do you know what I find the best of it, that it recovers details in the dark area where the noise is the most.
The door in your first photo is such example.
Just a noise reduction would simply blur that and you even lose more details.

No sorry Greytop.
I think this the best answer you will get link

Darmunk did you use auto align option?
Here are my results of the time link

Mongoose, there was a post about asto-photography here some time ago and i was also amaze what they can pull out of those shots, and thats where my idea came from.
Would like to try Registax, I wonder if it's better or easier then photoshop.
With photoshop it's all automated so quite easy but the differnce Darkmunk shows me is strange.

Gefeliciteerd met je dertigste verjaardag

Then you can see the potential Mongoose.
Use exposure stacking to fasten the shutterspeed so that you can handhold them and use mean to clear out the noise from iso1600.

Can you do Median stacking with that program?

Here is the official CS4 extended page for stacking link
Here is one about Median to remove the people link

Yes I can see that, funny though...

Did you know this btw?
In relation to the EU dimension to this issue, during the UK Presidency of the EU in 2005 a decision was made to "agree common standards for security features and secure issuing procedures for ID cards (December 2005), with detailed standards agreed as soon as possible thereafter. In this respect, the UK Presidency has put forward a proposal for EU-wide use of biometrics in national ID cards.

So the UK are pushing the ID-card through the EU countries so in that respect it's unlikely you would not going to have them.
If you say your against that, then you have the figures against you since a public consultation exercise results from 2003 where:
in favour: 2606 responses (61%)
against: 1587 responses (38%)
neutral: 48 responses (1%)

So it seems a majority was for the ID-card then so what has changed?

Thank you for the comments and I know my name is hard Mongoose
Like Peter said I used stacking to clear out the noise but wanted also to stack to stack exposure but that didn't went so well

I took a metering and simply too the half of the thinking if I stack that I would have perfect exposure but those where already perfect
So Prieni coming to your post, I wanted to take the exposure to such a length that I could hand hold it. Probably if I did a bit more planning I could have done that better, 0.2 seconds at 40mm is do able with SR.
So will redo it some time later with those exposures.

Oh for the ones that wants to try stacking handheld, photoshop has a stacking tool where you can simply pick the photos you want, he align them and stack them.
There are several stacking methods, one removes noise very effectively, that's what I use here but it can also compare multiple photos and clear out what is not a returning object.

So if you make want to make a photo of the pyramids there are always people walking there so you take more photos and the program can filter out the people walking

Will make a small tut when stacking I was planing to do works since it comes in handy when you don't have a tripod with you.



ps. Darkmunk the stacking in photoshop cs3/cs4 can be found under
file - script - load files into stack

You then need to tack on the option make an smart object and align the photos if that's needed.

When done go to layer - smart object - stack mode to see the options.
Mean will remove the noise very effectively better then you've now.
Median will also remove but less efficient but also removes the people walking in the photo for example.

Mike Said this a couple of posts ago and if this true then why have you so many cases contradicting that, meaning that you're questioned quite a lot of times by the police since you look suspicious when you've a camera.
It must quite bothers you

Funny thing is that we have a different attitude and not such problems... maybe people are a bit more open here and rather then call the police they simply go over to have a chat with the man with the camera. And probably in the big cities we don't care any more

Indeed but I also find it in inefficient since a compressed file by the computer are roughly 2/3 of the size so you can have 30% more photos on it that way and if it's a 1TB disks that are thousand of photos so yes worth it since it costs no effort