I have been trying to work with these two pictures and they are sooooo blooming grainy and I can't figure it out, if I do a NI on them it looks terrible. I don't understand what I did...they are almost full size
so what's your take and what would you do different? On both days it was very gray, typical Michigan weather.
Did you sharpen them in your raw converter or use heavy sharpening somewhere in the process? The pattern does not look as much to me like ISO grain as it does like the sharpening artifacts that I have sometimes seen when I crank up the sharpening in in Canon DPP.
I think your ISO was too high and shutter speed too fast for the f-stop setting.
Judging by the light in the pictures, I think ISO 200 or perhaps at a squeeze 400 with a shutter speed of 1/250 would have got better, cleaner results.
I have no idea why my ISO was so high...I usually have it set no higher than MAYBE 800, but someone had taken some pictures the day before with the camera...maybe something got re-set obviously.
I use PSE8 now, I did run a sharpen on both I think but in the editing not the raw part...if anyone thinks they can fix these I sure would appreciate it. I want to use them on a calendar but maybe it's not going to work...I did a little cropping with the one but I tried to keep that at a minimum as I need the full resolution (240) for the calender.
I'm probably going A-backwards doing this...might just have to rething what picture I use...lord know's I have a few thousand to pick from
I like the noise on the second shot, I think it fits in well with the scene and the light. Embrace the grain, it's not always a bad thing!
Originally posted by clive_patric_nolan:
Originally posted by Covert_Oddity:
I like the noise on the second shot, I think it fits in well with the scene and the light. Embrace the grain, it's not always a bad thing!
Heh, I was going to say the same thing but i actually think the grain works really well in the first shot and not the second!
I agree, but I'm using this on a calender (or would like to) and when you blow this up to 12 X 18 I'm afraid it won't look good at all...your opinion???
I like the noise on the second shot, I think it fits in well with the scene and the light. Embrace the grain, it's not always a bad thing!
Originally posted by clive_patric_nolan:
Originally posted by Covert_Oddity:
I like the noise on the second shot, I think it fits in well with the scene and the light. Embrace the grain, it's not always a bad thing!
Heh, I was going to say the same thing but i actually think the grain works really well in the first shot and not the second!
I agree, but I'm using this on a calender (or would like to) and when you blow this up to 12 X 18 I'm afraid it won't look good at all...your opinion???
Not sure about this particular case, but I've often found that what looks bad on screen looks much better once you print it. I had a shot recently that looked a little blurry and had some artifacts from my attempts to clean it up on the computer. Once I printed it though, it looks really good, ended up with a slightly gritty real feeling about it.
Ouch, 1600 iso. It happens to me sometimes the day after shooting night shots, when I forget to reset the iso back down.
ETA In camera sharpening may have been set to highest option, causing "blooming" grain as well.
It was in Michigan? Maybe it was just a grainy day.
ISO1600 @1/1250sec for a landscape........why???
Your settings make no sense. That image could have been shot at 1/250sec and dropped the ISO. You need to know what makes sense. In that scene, if my settings came at that, the first thing I would do is check ISO.
