reducing noise in a HDR photo

[liquidmonkey]

i've recently done up some HDR photos and there is quite a bit of noise in some photos --- http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=141948&id=68281'976&l=fdae4ae'ee --- and i'm just curious how to get rid of it?

i've read a tiny tiny bit about NOISE NINJA and NEAT IMAGE.
do any of these work nicely with LR?
do they have plugin's for LR?
whats your opinion or experience?

thanks for putting me on the right path

 

[pknight]

I have Neat Image as an external editor in Lightroom. I can load images directly from LR into the standalone version of Neat Image and have it do its thing. Or, I can edit the image in Photoshop and use the Neat Image Photoshop plug-in. The only difference is the format of the image when you bring it back into Lightroom. If I use the standalone version as the editor, I need to bring it in as a TIFF file. If I use Photoshop and the Neat Image plug-in, I can bring it back to Lightroom as a PSD file.

In either case, it does a good job with noise, especially if you create custom profiles as instructed in the manual.

 

[Halfje-Bruin]

Have you tried the noise reduction features of Lightroom? In many cases this is sufficient but when not enough I use Noiseware as an external editor (through Photoshop).

 

[LJR69]

I use Noise Ninja, which like the Neat Image solution above, is a round trip option but works great - especially if you use custom camera noise profiles (I think I got them for my D3'' from their site)