Dark pictures - noisy in LR, fine in...

Took some sunset pictures at the weekend with Canon 850 IS, producing jpeg. Shots of sun setting over sea with rocks and islands in foreground (West Coast of Scotland if you're interested ;-)



When loaded into LR the dark areas are very noisy, by that I mean blocky, with chunks of very dark and not quite so dark making overall picture pretty poor to look at.



I was bemoaning that fact that I hadn't used my Canon 400D shooting RAW when I happenedd to look at same picture in Canon's Zoombrowser and it looks much, much better, with dark areas of rock nicely graduated.



Both LR and Zoombrowser show similar histogram with fat spike of very dark, LR black 'highlights' doesn't show any of the problem areas as clipping black (do you clip blacks like you clip whites ?).



As both programs are displaying same jpeg why does LR give a significantly poorer picture and can I do anything about it using the myriad of tools (which I'm gradually working my way through !!).



Many thanks for any insights into something that's disturbing my ''Wah'' a bit given how much I'm enjoying Lightroom.



Pete
Dark pictures - noisy in LR, fine in...
I think this is a monitor profile issue. Is your monitor profiled? If not, delete the default profile from the color management of the OS.
Dark pictures - noisy in LR, fine in...
Lee - can you explain this a little further, please?

Read this thread, especially post 30 and the ones just before it.



http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@@.3bc3a775

Lee Jay - Thanks for that. It helps explain it, even if trying to understand it messes with my head.



:-)

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