[Boofers]

Pic one more noise

Pic two less noise

Which one looks better?

[Dabhand16]

Sorry Boofers - only one image per thread in the Critique forum, so I've moved it to the the sharing forum.

As far as your question is concerned, i like them both, but Personally I like noise to add grittyness to an image, and I don't think a flower is a grtiity subject. Having said that, I guess I've nailed my colours to the less noise mast.

[P-E]

I would say less noise.

[Sonsey]

I would say more noise.

[Boofers]

Look at the pictures as black and white, the question could be, do B+W pictures tend to look better with more noise, or less I would like to get an idea about the whole noise or film noise amont in Mono processing.

[P-E]

I do like noise in B&W.

[Sonsey]

Originally Posted by Boofers

the question could be, do B+W pictures tend to look better with more noise, or less

Personally I think they do... the challenge when shooting digital is trying to get your "noise" to give the effect of film grain, and not just general noise. Unfortunately I think this is very hard to do really well, which is one of the reasons why many photogs refuse to part with their older film equipment, or even refuse to go digital at all.

[JMitchell]

i would say that there is not enough of a difference here. If you reduced it more, then I'd make a decision, but for now, I just quite like the shot!

[Victoria]

I vote for more noise. just appeals more although the difference is only slight.

[Boofers]

To me the background started to look dirty with a high film grain look, bad habit of color macro maybe. Maybe the trick on blur is the kind of noise applied, or film grain blending so it dosen't look dirty on the blur. any ideas on where to start,,,I would think very soft grain?

[CathieT]

Less for me -

[nichpr]

Boy, the difference between these two is so subtle .... maybe its my monitor or my eyes but I just don't see enough of a diff to quible about.
- Paul

[Boofers]

nichpr,
your right, but when I was skimmi