> Looks kinda like film grain. Is that straight out of the camera or a
> bit enhanced?
Well, kinda sorta. I shot RAW+JPEG, but ended up using the RAW
conversion using the same in-camera settings as the JPEG. The results
were essentially identical but with a slightly better behaved (linear)
noise pattern. Ended up I could have used the in-camera JPEG without
any change whatsoever. Panasonic's in-camera noise-reduction isn't the
prettiest thing around.
In post-processing, I did bump the curves a touch for personal taste,
resized, sharpened (to correct for the resizing), added the border and
logo and saved it.
The grain/noise pattern is from the camera. I know that some people
get the willies over grain, but for soft pictures like this I feel
that random noise like this is important as it provides a surface for
the eyes to focus on.
AG
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