Weekly Assignment #87: Art of Noise

Nikolai

No I didn't mean hunting down and shooting the members of popular 80ies band...
For this round we're going to take the pictures with the maximum amount of noise possible with the intention to incorporate the said noise as an important part of the final image. Grundge and macabre naturally come to mind, but don't stop just there. And if your camera can't produce enough noise, you can always add some in post :-)
Fresh pictures only. More post processing than usual is OK, since we're talking "art" :-). Please provide original frame if you did some excessive amount of postwork.
Let's have some noise!

[Deleted User]

OK I will go first




I had to crop it fairly tight to loose the surrounding enviroment, I think it has that old newspaper look, not sure if there is enough noise for you??

Here the original




Thanks for looking

Tim

Nikolai

draggin wrote:

OK I will go first
I had to crop it fairly tight to loose the surrounding enviroment, I think it has that old newspaper look, not sure if there is enough noise for you??
Here the original
Thanks for looking
Tim

Tim, very nice, like the mid-XX century look of it!

spb13

"TV Dinner"



Under exposed at ISO 3200 then brightened up in post, then a little "sharpening". I knew from experience this would give me lots of noise. Oh and a little desaturation for a little more retro feel.

Nikolai

spb13 wrote:

"TV Dinner"

Under exposed at ISO 3200 then brightened up in post, then a little "sharpening". I knew from experience this would give me lots of noise. Oh and a little desaturation for a little more retro feel.

Sean,
thank you for the entry!
I must say however, that, unlike the motorcycle entry, noise doesn't add much to this image (even with the title)

davidweaver

Nikolai,
This reminds me of cheesy [pun intended] diner and bad restaurant photography where the old grainy and faded pictures of menu items are placed in the window to entice passerbys to want to eat it.

Nikolai wrote:

Sean,
thank you for the entry!
I must say however, that, unlike the motorcycle entry, noise doesn't add much to this image (even with the title)

davidweaver

One from me. The one that was published:



The one I just noised up:


* Layer Channel Mixer to Monochrome
* Layer Curves on top of channel mixer to add more contrast and bump the noise.
Copy of original with about10% Gaussian noise added then layered on top of everything with a 35% opacity. This brings some of the color back.

A B/W take on it:

Nikolai

davidweaver wrote:

One from me. The one that was published:
The one I just noised up:
* Layer Channel Mixer to Monochrome
* Layer Curves on top of channel mixer to add more contrast and bump the noise.
Copy of original with about10% Gaussian noise added then layered on top of everything with a 35% opacity. This brings some of the color back.
A B/W take on it:

David, thank you!
I like bw better!
However, the colored version reminds me once-used-to-be-popular faux-color prints (BW print that was partially or fully hand painted), so it kinda stands its own ground.

Photo-Do

OK here's my try at noise. I used 1600 ISO, and add noise in PSP11. I couldn't decide if I liked it better in color or B/W, so here's both.
Thanks for looking,

Denise

Nikolai

Photo-Do wrote:

OK here's my try at noise. I used 1600 ISO, and add noise in PSP11. I couldn't decide if I liked it better in color or B/W, so here's both.
Thanks for looking,
Denise

Denise, very nice, I like the effect! Tough call on which one to use, both very solid, I'd go for color. As a compromise maybe a blend?

overparduffer

Hmmm, thought I had added more noise than that... EDITED



Here's the original...

Nikolai

overparduffer wrote:

Hmmm, thought I had added more noise than that...
Here's the original...

You probably added it to a hires original. Noise tend to disappear whne resizing down. Resize to the target box first and add noise later.