* On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 02:41:59PM -0500, Ken Norton said:
> > Perhaps I went overboard on the grain on that last one, but as with new
> > features you have to go to extremes.
>
> I'm not much of a fan of fake grain. Maybe I take the real stuff too
> seriously and leave it in when it should be removed, but adding it in
> this case does have a bit of contrived look to it. The problem is that
> it's too tight and not gaussian enough to mimick the real stuff.
I think this is completely fair, and of course it is contrived (surely
that's the point of most lightroom sliders. ;) ) but the result isn't all
bad
> Also note, regarding the fake grain:
>
> 1. In color film, most of the grain is chroma, not luminance.
> 2. In B&W film, all grain is luminance.
>
> What you did with your fake grain was to add luminance noise to the image.
Aaah, interesting. I'll bare that in mind!
> Hey, I only know this because I too tend to push the sliders around a bit
> much.
>
> Nice shots, though.
Cheers,
paddy
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