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The "ART" of noise.....

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Johann van Rensburg

New member
Usually in the digital world, it's all about avoiding having the noise in the first place, or how to deal with it in the post processing stage......

But.....

How can one use it creatively - like we used to in the good old film days when grain could be your friend if you got it right.......

Can someone maybe point me to examples of Digitally captured images where the noise was deliberately used creatively and not added artificially during post processing ?
 
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Kathy Rappaport

pro member
Bride

I used the noise on a photo of a bride coming into the santuary while still in the hall before entry. I loved the expression and pose, but I shot it in JPG and it was before I was shooting RAW..It won't show here but I printed it on canvas and everyone loves it and wants to know what texture I used for it.
 
nicolas claris

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Hi Kathy
I guess I understand that you can't show that image here (model privacy) but what about a crop for us to see your ending result?
 
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Mike Shimwell

New member
This one combines noise and blur:) - GX100 400iso at night. My print is 16 inches square on matt paper.

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And this one is in the dark at an aquarium - same camera and settings

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Mike
 
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Johann van Rensburg

New member
Works for me

The first one especially would just not be the same without the noise.
Second one has me thinking a bit - not sure if the noise adds any value.
 
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Daniel Buck

New member
as far as I'm concerned, digital noise/"grain" isn't as graceful as film grain. For me, the less digital noise, the better :) If I want a bit of grain, then I'll apply some scanned film grain, or a good grain simulation.
 
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Mike Shimwell

New member
By and large I would agree Daniel, but there are still times it can be useful and in mono images it's much less objectionable than colour noise. One thing I really don't like is the big clumpy dark patches you get when the raw converter tries to sort out what's going on with something with lots of colour noise - and noise reduction usually makes it worse.

Mike
 
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Edward Bussa

Member
Johann,

There is a related discussion here. I remember deliberately cranking up the ISO to introduce grain as I thought it would enhance the image.

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Also, photographer "Ctein" wrote a fairly technical article over at The Online Photographer that I found quite revealing about the role of grain in photography. You can find it here.
 
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Daniel Buck

New member
Mike Shimwell said:
By and large I would agree Daniel, but there are still times it can be useful and in mono images it's much less objectionable than colour noise. One thing I really don't like is the big clumpy dark patches you get when the raw converter tries to sort out what's going on with something with lots of colour noise - and noise reduction usually makes it worse.

Mike
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indeed, the luminance noise looks better than the chroma noise for digital
 
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