Cactus flower

daodang · Mar 19, 2005

Hi,

This period of the year is the time of cactus and desert plants flowering.

The picture is a bit grainy due to a wrong ISO 800 setting. It has been processed by Noise Ninja but I couldn't go long with noise reduction since the picture will suffer from softness.

Hopes you enjoy it.

Cheers.

greyflash · Mar 19, 2005

Beautiful image Dao. I just received a large cactus like that from a gentleman in California that I had done a favor for. Hope it will bloom.

F15Todd · Mar 19, 2005

ISO 800 doesn't hurt this photo at all on the screen.
How does is look printed?

Gale · Mar 19, 2005

Dao,

What a beautiful flower. Thanks for sharing. Wonderful composition and well shot.

Gale

PhotoDawg · Mar 19, 2005

Very nice Dao!! Thanks for sharing this wonderful flower picture!!!

daodang · Mar 19, 2005

F15Todd said:

ISO 800 doesn't hurt this photo at all on the screen.
How does is look printed?
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Hi Todd. On a 8 x10 print, the noise in the background is acceptable but with an 11 x 14 print, the noise is obvious in the dark areas of the background (near the picks at the top and bottom of the picture). In my limited experience with ISO 600 and 800 on a D100, I think it's worth to overexposed a little bit the dark areas (let say by 1/3 of a stop to lower the noise. I need to mention that I use the +0,3 EV gamma curve of Photogenetic. BW

peterdove · Mar 21, 2005

daodang said:

F15Todd said:

ISO 800 doesn't hurt this photo at all on the screen.
How does is look printed?
Click to expand...

Hi Todd. On a 8 x10 print, the noise in the background is acceptable but with an 11 x 14 print, the noise is obvious in the dark areas of the background (near the picks at the top and bottom of the picture). In my limited experience with ISO 600 and 800 on a D100, I think it's worth to overexposed a little bit the dark areas (let say by 1/3 of a stop to lower the noise. I need to mention that I use the +0,3 EV gamma curve of Photogenetic. BW
Click to expand...

An excellent pic, I would try and do some stronger noise reduction in one later and then mask it so that the stonger noise reduction is applied to the shadowy areas.

Peter

daodang · Mar 25, 2005

peterdove said:

daodang said:

F15Todd said:

ISO 800 doesn't hurt this photo at all on the screen.
How does is look printed?
Click to expand...

Hi Todd. On a 8 x10 print, the noise in the background is acceptable but with an 11 x 14 print, the noise is obvious in the dark areas of the background (near the picks at the top and bottom of the picture). In my limited experience with ISO 600 and 800 on a D100, I think it's worth to overexposed a little bit the dark areas (let say by 1/3 of a stop to lower the noise. I need to mention that I use the +0,3 EV gamma curve of Photogenetic. BW
Click to expand...

An excellent pic, I would try and do some stronger noise reduction in one later and then mask it so that the stonger noise reduction is applied to the shadowy areas.

Peter
Click to expand...

Hi Peter, I'm interested to do as you suggested. Could you be kind to give me the detailed procedure. Thank you.

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