Tinkering With Grain (C&C welcome)

[kdthomas]

Not being too serious, just playing with presets. Wound up with this and thought ... "huh ..."

 

[crzyfotopeeple]

Loads of noise...However I kind of like it.

 

[KenC]

Nice and kind of ominous. Maybe more so if it were a little darker. I like the composition and the grain.

 

[kdthomas]

Nice and kind of ominous. Maybe more so if it were a little darker. I like the composition and the grain.

Thanks At first it kind of reminded me of those angiograms where they inject the dye into the heart blood vessels ...

 

[gsgary]

Not sure how you get grain in digital

 

[kdthomas]

Not sure how you get grain in digital

I deliberately put the grain in with LightRoom, tinkering with settings

 

[gsgary]

Not sure how you get grain in digital

I deliberately put the grain in with LightRoom, tinkering with settings

Grain is in film

 

[kdthomas]

Not sure how you get grain in digital

I deliberately put the grain in with LightRoom, tinkering with settings

Grain is in film

OK I suppose you're right So "noise" is a better term then?

It was just labeled 'grain' in LightRoom, IIRC

 

[Forkie]

Not sure how you get grain in digital

I deliberately put the grain in with LightRoom, tinkering with settings

Grain is in film

OK I suppose you're right So "noise" is a better term then?

It was just labeled 'grain' in LightRoom, IIRC

Don't mind the pedants. Just step over them.

 

[W.Y.Photo]

I'm currently trying to push digital noise to the limits with a project I'm working on. I want to make it as aesthetically pleasing of an element as grain is considered to be with film.

All I can say is.. Its hard.

 

[gsgary]

I'm currently trying to push digital noise to the limits with a project I'm working on. I want to make it as aesthetically pleasing of an element as grain is considered to be with film.

All I can say is.. Its hard.

It won't happen

 

[Forkie]

I'm currently trying to push digital noise to the limits with a project I'm working on. I want to make it as aesthetically pleasing of an element as grain is considered to be with film.

All I can say is.. Its hard.

It won't happen

Always the optimist!

There's no point, William. GSGary says it won't happen, so you might as well just stop there.

 

[W.Y.Photo]

It's too late. I already shot 3000 images of Fort Lee New Jersey with an Olympus Pen Mini at ISO 12800.. We'll see what happens when I process them!!

 

[gsgary]

There could be one good one

 

[vintagesnaps]

I like the composition of the photo itself, the pattern of the branches from that perspective. It looks somewhat sepia, maybe more taupe, but I think this works as a monochromatic image. I'm not sure that the noise adds to it though, just softens it I think.

I don't think grain is necessarily pleasing in film, that seems to be something of a misconception. Although I play around some with plastic cameras (with plastic lenses and next to no settings), it seems to be a matter of figuring out how to best use them (for me it depends on the subject, film speed, lighting conditions, etc.). But with a decent lens and the proper speed film I think the expectation is that the grain would be minimal, just as having an expectation of a digital image having minimal noise.

Lightroom can label it what they want, but it doesn't seem accurate to call it grain, more that it's supposed to look like grain... (faux grain? wannabee grain?? lol). The grain's in the actual emulsion on one side of the strip of film, and to me a lot of what 's supposed to look like it was shot on film often doesn't.