Night shots

geraldfinnegan

The Night Mare


Evening: West 73rt St- NYC


View from Penninsula Hotel- NYC

photocat

geraldfinnegan wrote:

The Night Mare


is a winner in my book. The other two suffer too much from noise, which I know is hard to avoid with shots like that...
The first one is a knock-out! Well done

geraldfinnegan

thanks for the feedback

photocat wrote:

geraldfinnegan wrote:

The Night Mare


is a winner in my book. The other two suffer too much from noise, which I know is hard to avoid with shots like that...
The first one is a knock-out! Well done

Thanks! Glad you liked it. The other two were shot with 800 speed film and are grainy. I like that but others react the same way.

aero-nut

I definately like the night shots... One thing you might consider is running them through a noise reduction program like Noise Ninja..

geraldfinnegan

RE: Noise

aero-nut wrote:

I definately like the night shots... One thing you might consider is running them through a noise reduction program like Noise Ninja..

Thanks for the nice comments about the shots. I'll take a look at that program. But sometimes grain is apparent in a shot (not just mine, anybody's) and I like that. It's part of film in some speeds, and I sometimes use high-speed film for that effect. In others it is noise and the trick would be to subtract the noise but leave the grain. Some of that disappears when a shot is printed. I saw one shot on my monitor and it looked fine, grain apparent but not intrusive. Then I saw the same shot on someone else's computer and it looked real blurred and noisy. Maybe a good Noise R. program like you mention would reduce that discrepancy.

aero-nut

geraldfinnegan wrote:

Thanks for the nice comments about the shots. I'll take a look at that program. But sometimes grain is apparent in a shot (not just mine, anybody's) and I like that. It's part of film in some speeds, and I sometimes use high-speed film for that effect. In others it is noise and the trick would be to subtract the noise but leave the grain. Some of that disappears when a shot is printed. I saw one shot on my monitor and it looked fine, grain apparent but not intrusive. Then I saw the same shot on someone else's computer and it looked real blurred and noisy. Maybe a good Noise R. program like you mention would reduce that discrepancy.

I agree..sometimes grain is a very cool effect. I especially like it on sepia or black and white pics.