A snapshot from last night.

Airedrifter

7D at 6400

dlplumer

I normally hate noise, but I must admit, I really like your shot. The noise gives it a grainy effect which is quite beautiful in this photo

Scott_Quier

- this is cool. Have you considered converting to B&W. That might be even cooler!

rhondavid

I agree, the noise would lend itself well to a B & W conversion.

Love the lighting and the textures of the snow on the trees.

Airedrifter

B & W version

boblu262

Good call on the BW!

Scott_Quier

Yup ... a real wall-hanger in process here - but I think the conversion and edit can be improved a just a bit more:

• Unless I missed while looking at it, I dont' think I see a really good black in there anywhere.
• And, there's a lot of blown areas - more than I see in the color version.
• There are a couple of things I would clone/crop out:
  • Along the bottom, I see a couple or three sticks/branches/something sticking up
  • Along the right side, the corner of a house/window - something ... I would get rid of that
  • In the main tree, there's a blown high-light I would cover with some tree
  • Crop the left edge to just right of the fence gate - this would do a couple of things (1) remove that tree on the left edge that is not adding to the image, (2) move the house from the center of the shot to the left 1/3, and (3) better position the big tree on the right side.

Airedrifter

I'm not so sold on the crop
but I do like the clean up suggestions.

Scott_Quier

Airedrifter wrote:

but I do like the clean up suggestions.
I have to agree - I downloaded both versions to quickly flip back and forth and I'm also not sold on the crop and it was my idea. So ... I'm wrong ... yet again

thapamd

Nice! The b&w conversion is awesome!

Gambrel

Noise drives me insane, but in this case I must say it really adds to this photo. I love it!