It's really a rather good photograph, despite the grain: persist with the photography, because you seem to be quite good at it.
Graham On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 7:19 PM Lorenzo Bolzani <[email protected]> wrote: > > Regarding the shot, you could have used a larger aperture (as large as > possible for that focal length, the smallest value you can get). You could > also try a little slower shutter speed, up to 1/30, standing VERY still or > using a tripod or a table as support, taking a few shots, like a dozen, to be > sure to have at least one completely still. And move her closer to the lights. > > The room was quite dark (according to the shot exif data), the flash should > have fired. When there is low light I prefer to use shutter priority because > the camera will already choose the larger aperture. > > It's very hard to estimate the amount of light in a room using the eyes > because eyes adapts a lot, ISO, speed, etc. are a better reference. > > Regarding darktable see the attached file for my attempt at recovering the > picture. > > Consider that for screen display and small/medium prints in my opinion the > file is completely usable, do not focus too much on 100% view, prints are > quite forgiving. > > I used a lot of raw denoise, plus two other denoise steps (luma and chroma), > lowered the sharpening not to enhanche the noise and used local contrast and > equalizer to bring back some contrast. Lowpass filter to remove some color > halos. White balance and tone curve for fine tuning. > > > Bye > > Lorenzo > > Il giorno dom 7 apr 2019 alle ore 17:46 Niranjan Rao <[email protected]> ha > scritto: >> >> Greetings, >> >> >> Version 2.6.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 >> >> I am just a beginner and learning my way around. I read a lot, watch >> video tutorials, play around the knobs on camera and in darktable only >> on "safe unimportant" photos. Otherwise I stay safe on auto mode. >> >> >> Yesterday was a special day and she was all dressed up. I forgot my >> camera was not on auto mode. Results are all noisy and grainy and my >> limited experience does not help me to cleanup the results. Thankfully I >> have some photos from my phone camera which are looking better than my >> Canon camera photos. >> >> >> At this point, except from camera being on Av mode, I don't remember any >> other settings such as exposure changed from default. I did turn on the >> flash as camera prompted me to turn on the flash even if there was >> plenty of light in the room. >> >> >> I have uploaded one CR2 file at >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CUTt7tEo0rmKwP99akAmJaV8dpJr6TBz/view?usp=sharing >> >> Is there a way to redeem myself? If you can save the day, please let me >> know the steps so that I can apply to other pictures. >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> >> Niranjan >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable user mailing list >> to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected] >> > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] -- Graham White London ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
