The Cure

[Gert van Santen]

Ron West schreef:
>>  Anyhow, the Panasonic has awesome Image
>>  Stabilisation plus 18x zoom. The only
>>  problem is that it's a rather noisy
>>  machine at high ISO because of the small
>>  sensor (I mostly used up to 800). Some
>>  Photoshop does wonders, though. ;-)
> 
> nothing wrong with noise gert. when i was shooting film i sometimes
> shot t-max 1600 at 12,800. you want to talk about grainy? :-) having
> access to a color and b&w darkroom was fun too.
> some grainy examples -
> http://ronwestb12.com/photo/html/cali-josh.html
> http://ronwestb12.com/photo/html/cali-wind.html
> 

I completely agree with you, Ron. Grainy 
pics can be very beautiful, especially 
the B&W ones. But digital noise is 
*ugly*, especially the colour noise blobs.

When I shoot a good picture, but the 
noise is bad, I often add virtual 
grainyness in Photoshop, to make it look 
like the picture was shot with a film 
camera. For example this one:

http://www.gertvansanten.nl/gallery/?gallery=music/thecure_2008&page=0&photo=3

Please note that this picture is done 
with 18x tele, 800 ISO on a small 
sensor, plus I cropped the hell out of 
it :-)

Great pics, by the way - love the grain :-)
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