Last edited by FrankMi; 4th December 2011 at 09:09 PM. Reason: Still trying to delete the duplicate.
Frank,
Without the original it is hard to tell just how well it worked but the result looks quite good to me.
Here is the image before trying ACR Noise Reduction on the JPG after post processing. This was about a 1/3 crop from the SOOC. You can see a fair amount of speckles. particularly in the log, which was almost black in the SOOC image.
You might need to open them in lightbox to clearly see the difference. Thank you for looking!
I can see a significant amount of detail loss. Perhaps you went a little too far.