I actually add film grain to some images to give them more character. I
found an image of a blank exposed and developed 35mm film, posted
somewhere on the internet, and add it as a layer to an image that I like
the composition of but seems to lack "something" and every once in a
while get a result that looks to my eye pretty good. Better than the
imitation film grain that's offered by many plugins and for that matter
in DxOMark's film pack software.
On 10/3/2019 3:45 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Oct 3, 2019, at 12:04 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
Images at ISO 204800 tend to be a bit noisy.
Yes, there is no question of that, but this gives a feel for how noisy. By the
same token 200mm shots hand held slower than 1/60 second, or any shots of a
musician shot at slower than 1/60 tend to be a bit blurry. It’s a question of
making the best of a bad situation and what side of the exposure triangle do
you push harder on. I figure that with digital I have very little to lose by
trying for the shots, even if none turn out. Worst case I waste a dime’s worth
of hard drive after a night’s shooting, best case I get a keeper shot.
One thing I noticed many years ago is that if you convert a noisy digital shot
to black and white, the noise gives a retro high ISO film feel.
Here’s the same frame processed in black and white
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/48795253708/in/album-72157711063469821/
To my eye the noise is about the same as the grain in plus-X, not even Tri-X.
Is that frame technically strong enough for me to print out? Not really, and I
almost certainly wouldn’t hang it on my wall. However, for a lot of subjects,
that might be the cleanest photo they have of them doing whatever they love,
because things like dancing or playing music tend to happen in really crappy
light.
If I compare this with shots I took with my K100, I would guess it closer to
ISO 800 than 20,000.
On 10/2/2019 20:16:55, Larry Colen wrote:
There were recently some questions about high ISO on the K-1
I was just going through some photos and noticed that this one is ISO 20,000
http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/48795612116/
this one is 16,000
http://www.fluidr.com/photos/ellarsee/48795751847/
Just as data points for setting your own ISO.
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