 Posted 12/14/2006 9:40:27 AM
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| OK, I have been struggling with photographing a Mum. I'm using a Canon Marco lens. the light is low, inside, natural from daylight, with the light curtains in the room pulled. I'm using a tripod. small aperature. about a 2 sec exposures. ISO. 100. My prints are grainy! I tried salvaging the photo, in question, with a soft focus. The one print in question is tltled "soft yellow". any thoughts about what I'm doing wrong, or right are much appreciated. (sorry, i forget how to post the link here). Daniel
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Posted 12/14/2006 9:46:17 AM
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Posted 12/14/2006 9:53:31 AM
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Also doesn't look grainy to me. Very pretty IMO.
Edited to add:
Could be sharper though.
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Posted 12/14/2006 9:57:10 AM
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Sorry,  It was grainy, i used a gausian blur to get rid of the grainyness......... ... daniel
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Posted 12/14/2006 10:12:43 AM
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More questions, than answers from me.
By graininess, do you mean you saw a lot of electronic noise? In general, with ISO 100 and a 2 second exposure, you shouldn't encounter an insurmountable amount of electronic noise. But, if it is electronic noise, I'd choose something like "Noise Ninja", rather than a Gaussian blur as a solution.
I'm thinking you may have captured this in RAW format. In converting the RAW image to .tiff or .psd, is there a chance some electronic noise was induced? On rare occasions, I have seen PhotoShop "balk" at converting some images from RAW. Are you using your specific camera model profile on whatever RAW conversion software you are using? With a generic or wrong camera profile, the RAW conversion process could produce suboptimal results.
There are a lot of "free trials" of RAW conversion software. So, if you think this might be the problem, try one of these:
Bibble Labs
Breeze Systems
Capture One
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Posted 12/14/2006 10:20:03 AM
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| R-, thanks... i will digest this later... must go I'm late...... welcome back. Daniel
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Posted 12/14/2006 3:46:27 PM
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Yes...welcome back Richard. I hope your hikes into the wilderness have been very successful for you and have made you happy!
Daniel,
I left you some comments on your images! 
By the way...it is nice to see you back on here too!
Susan 
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Posted 12/14/2006 3:54:25 PM
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