You could also use really low light with lots of dark area, then try to adjust it to show detail in the shadowed area. Talk about grain. I can't wait. I can do grain with the best of them. I could win. Well, not really. Last time I participated I did really bad.
It's obvious that Langdon reads the forums, I'll say that: first challenge since I got a 5D in my greedy little hands, and the topic is "Image Grain"? Sheesh. 5D is the anti-grain machine...
ISO noise is sooooo ugly compared to image grain. It's also opposite in the sense the most noise is in the darks and least in the lights while film image grain is most in the lights and least in the darks.
Silver Efex Pro is a nice plugin for emulating film grain. I haven't tried it myself but it might be worth a look. There's apparently a 15 day trial. Not sure if it watermarks the image or anything like some demos do though.
I like to shoot with a high ISO, convert to black and white, boost contrast, and then do multiple passes of Unsharp Mask to bring out the grain to what I like.
Silver Efex Pro is a nice plugin for emulating film grain. I haven't tried it myself but it might be worth a look. There's apparently a 15 day trial. Not sure if it watermarks the image or anything like some demos do though.
Silver Efex Pro is a nice plugin for emulating film grain. I haven't tried it myself but it might be worth a look. There's apparently a 15 day trial. Not sure if it watermarks the image or anything like some demos do though.
Silver Efex Pro is a nice plugin for emulating film grain. I haven't tried it myself but it might be worth a look. There's apparently a 15 day trial. Not sure if it watermarks the image or anything like some demos do though.
I like to shoot with a high ISO, convert to black and white, boost contrast, and then do multiple passes of Unsharp Mask to bring out the grain to what I like.
Rather than just converting to grayscale, I often copy the Blue Channel out to a grayscale document -- it's almost always the noisiest.
While digital noise may (arguably) be "uglier" compared to actual film grain, to me the "challenge" is to create an image which uses the characteristics of the camera to create an intended effect.
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ISO noise is sooooo ugly compared to image grain. It's also opposite in the sense the most noise is in the darks and least in the lights while film image grain is most in the lights and least in the darks.
I recommend adding it in PP.
Can we add image grain? Rules say we are not supposed to add what is not there. It is one thing to process to bring out the grain, but to add it would seem to be a rule breaker. Not that I don't think that adding the grain would not be a good idea. Today's cameras do their best not to have noise.
Can we add image grain? Rules say we are not supposed to add what is not there. It is one thing to process to bring out the grain, but to add it would seem to be a rule breaker.
Noise filters have always had their own special place as far as I know. Adding or removing noise has never fallen in the major element category. I don't think my shots came top 5 in the last two challenges so they weren't validated, but I'm pretty sure I've had this conversation before and it was deemed legit.
Don't worry. If I know DPC there are going to be 10 arguments of "There is no grain at all on the blue ribbon!" for every "That's an illegal application of image grain!"
