i am noticing a painterly effect at the pixel level
Ok, I am noticing some kind of Filter being applied to my raw images, before any kind of editing has been done. it looks like a median filter. grain seems to be totally wiped out. this is from a mountain shot... could it be some filter that i never noticed being applied automatically for noise reduction? i have seen my images pop up before and i would notice a hot pixel on my camera, and then in a split second aperture has automatically taken care of that hot pixel and i can no longer find it.
or maybe is this like a heat wave type of thing that people only see on top of mountains?
If it is filtering my images, is there a way to disable it?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)