Girl Friend

Bifurcator · Jul 23, 2008

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Girl Friend

This was taken hand-held at 1/8 sec. with Minolta's Anti-Shake system.
- Enjoy!

Fox Paw · Jul 23, 2008

Lovely woman, good photo.

CowboysDaughter · Jul 23, 2008

Is it just me, or is there a lot of noise going on around her face?

Anyway, lovely shot anyway, nice warm tones, she's beautiful. =]

eccs19 · Jul 23, 2008

CowboysDaughter said:
Is it just me, or is there a lot of noise going on around her face?

I don't think it's you. I was thinking something didn't look right, I just wasn't sure what. I'm to new to know for sure. But otherwise lovely picture.

AdrianBetti · Jul 23, 2008

CowboysDaughter said:
Is it just me, or is there a lot of noise going on around her face?

Anyway, lovely shot anyway, nice warm tones, she's beautiful. =]

I agree with you. There is a lot of noise around her face.

Bifurcator · Jul 24, 2008

Yup. The image was shot as JPG reduced size at ISO 64 and had like, almost no noise but the color balance was all off. The lights in Denney's are banana-yellow and a half!

Balancing it by hand brought out ALLOT of noise. The noise removal I tried to use killed all the signs of sharpness in her hair so I selected around her face and inverted before removing the noise. You're not supposed to notice these things!

I suppose I should have inverted back and and run a less powerful NR pass.

Thanks for all the nice comments too! I appreciate it!

motorshooter · Jul 25, 2008

Foreground is cluttered

Big Mike · Jul 25, 2008

Yup. The image was shot as JPG reduced size at ISO 64 and had like, almost no noise but the color balance was all off.

Just goes to show that shooting in RAW is much, much better. Could have fixed the WB issue without bringing out all that noise.

rufus5150 · Jul 25, 2008

motorshooter said:
Foreground is cluttered

Given the shot, I think it adds context.

Alex_B · Jul 25, 2008

I had a girlfriend of the same nationality I guess

Bifurcator · Jul 25, 2008

Japanese?

Bifurcator · Jul 25, 2008

Big Mike said:
Just goes to show that shooting in RAW is much, much better. Could have fixed the WB issue without bringing out all that noise.

Yup! But then again maybe not in this case. Remember... it's a 100% crop and I'm on a CCD wanna-be SLR from about 3 or 4 years ago.

But for sure RAW is always a little better! I always shoot RAW. Except that day when I was trying to figure out what the fastest SEQ the camera would do is and how many in the SEQ, etc.