Not a disparagement of your effort, Fernando, but I'm not a fan of
the Neat Image 'noise smoothed' look. It makes everything look
somewhat plasticky and artificial to me.
How to improve on the look ... well, I'm not sure. It depends upon
what you're after. I tend to work such low-light situations with B&W
rendering in mind.
Godfrey
On Apr 10, 2006, at 10:01 PM, Fernando Terrazzino wrote:
...
1) I used an FA35/2 wide open, which turn to be acceptable sharp in
the centre (I mean, given the fact I used it wide open)
2) Manual mode, spot "metered" the subject, adjusted ISO, autofocus,
switch to manual focus and then burst-shot sets of 3 frames in a row
hoping to use the one in the middle (I don't trust my eyes, the
autofocus didn't hunt that much, I switched to manual focus so the
camera wouldn't try to autofocus between shots)
3) I shot raw to have more "latitude" in the postprocessing and set
white balance to "tungsten" just to have a reference when processing
the raw files
4) End-up using mostly ISO 1600
5) Processed in Capture One usually "pushing" with the exposure
compensation dial between +0.65 to +1.15
6) Adjusted contrast, brightness
7) Saved as TIFF 16 bits
8) Used Neat Image (default parametes) to clean up the noise and
save as .jpg
9) Added some sharpening in PSP
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4322083
large size:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4322083&size=lg
Don't mind the composition as I was focused in the technicalities,
hopefully next time I'll be more relaxed ;-)
The rest of the shots (extra sharpened for the web) are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sets/72057594091422991/
