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gorin-images said 834 days ago:
joannefaulkner said 834 days ago:
Thanks for your comment, Gorin. In actual fact the background is not noise but the grain I added later on in photoshop using a filter.. I shot the image at 100 ISO, so noise was not a problem. I guess I like grainy looks, and that was what I was going for...!
gorin-images said 834 days ago:
Don't get me wrong, I too like grainy looks in some cases. For some reason in this case though, the noise looks more like artifacts to me than the type of grain you'd get from film or a high ISO. I've never tried applying grain through Photoshop.
Jeff Hatfield, another WS participant and also a friend of mine, has a several-step process he uses to create extremely convincing film-grain in Photoshop (he had two images featured in the Noise, Noise, Noise! theme). If you like grainy images, you should ask him what his process is. I'm sure he'd share it with you, and you might like the results even better than just straight application of the PS filter ;)
joannefaulkner said 834 days ago:
Cheers, Jarrett I'll look him up! Like I said, I love grain, and am always up for learning fancy grain creating processes in photoshop!
agentbauer said 834 days ago:
great picture, reflecting the theme perfectly without being too obvious.
dicksdaily said 834 days ago:
A lovely photo and a nice take on the theme. I might have liked a slighty less tight crop - but I still a really nice shot.
dzugaev said 834 days ago:
The framing looks a bit too tight to me, otherwise it's a good photo. I like your understanding of the theme.
LynnR said 833 days ago:
PERFECT!!
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I really like to the tonal range in this shot. And that it is of dying/wilting flowers instead of picture perfect flowers like most people shoot. It just doesn't seem that "hot" to me. Also, it seems like there is a fair bit of noise inthe flat background areas, and it looks more like artifacts than "artistic grain". This image would be stronger without that (and probably is at the larger resolution that you shot it).