WHY YOU USE THE RIGHT FILM!

Otherwise the pictures you take will end up with tons of grain and look like crap :lol: Oh how good it could have been :roll:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/Karalee/landscapes/haybailsXYZ.jpg

I know Im just asking for it from you digiholics with this post. I can hear it already,

"If you had a digital camera film wouldnt be a problem"





Edited cos Im a dork and didnt resize it. Funny how it looks less grainy now.

"If you had a digital camera film wouldnt be a problem"

Thanks for that Tim :P

Kara:

Except for the graininess it looks fine. How about going into photoshop and adding a texture like canvas or using this for a watercolor.

Try that and see if that can enhance a pretty good landscape.

Yeah, watercolor would look awesome for this photograph. :D

Ill give it a go but you guys know what Im like when it comes to photoshop :lol:

I know Im just asking for it from you digiholics with this post. I can hear it already

Ya know, if you had a digital.......... *smirks*

"If you had a digital camera film wouldnt be a problem"

Depending on what digital you got, if you boosted the iso you could get a picture like this or something, hehe.

Whats the iso of the film you used and what brand? It could have been the developers fault to for over developing or using the wrong chemicals for that brand. :0). Each brand has a special developer and most places like walmart or something uses just one since it would take to much time to change the chemicals all the time, not to mention costly.

I had fuji superia 400 in my camera and didnt realise it. I had about 5 rolls of 100 in the fridge and one damn roll of 400 and I didnt bother to look :oops: - the worst thing is most of the shots on that roll were really good - save for the grain :roll:

Well fuji is a brand name, and you can usualy get away with 400 film, unless your cropping tight.

It was near dark, I didnt do too much cropping - Im actually suprised all my pics came out considering it was 8.30 PM

How does the origianl look vs. the scanned image?

I didnt get any prints, I just had them scanned and put on a kodak disk, ends up being a little bit cheaper, then if theres something I really want ill take it and have it printed.

Nothings gonna save it but a reshoot :lol:

I've been using the Superia 400 for a couple night shots and they didn't have that much grain. Actually it's barely noticeable if at all on 4x6's

I wonder if its me then :-? I was doin some bracketing - do you think that woulda made a difference with it?

I doubt bracketing would make much of a diff in the graininess, unless maybe if it's overexposed or something.
My old Minolta doesn't do night shots well anyways, that damn mirror is too freakin heavy and shakes the whole camera :lol:

Is this cropped? How much of the original negative is this?

The next question is the resolution. Did you chose the highest resolution available on the disk or did they just go with a lower res than Kodak?

Another thing you might try is FILTER>DESPECKLE. This may get rid of some of the grain but it will also soften the image.

Again I think you should try this image with watercolor or texture. You might be able to turn this into gold with a special effect like that.

The res is just 72 dpi, and obviously a slight crop. It doesnt look as bad in photoshop :-? Im gonna go try that out tho lucian.

When you crop, pick a size (i.e. 4x6) 2 300 dpi.

Then see how that looks. The scan they made for you should be at least 3 MP and if so 3MP should make a decent 8x10.

I seem to get better results from cropping than from resizing.

I used the paint daub filter in PS and came back with this on the original image.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/Karalee/landscapes/paintdaub.jpg

Did a slight color adjustment cos it looked a bit purple.

Hmmm... that's a little too water-colored... maybe try a painting effect?

Watercolor dont like that image :( it comes out really dark, but I changed the original first one I posted - I didnt resize it properly :lol:

Hehe... try some other effects... there must be some cool things you can do with that one. ;)

Rough pastels on texturised paper :-?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/Karalee/landscapes/texturiser.jpg

The paints are not liking me.

I kinda like that one, actually! :D Maybe put a wooden-type border around it or something. ;)

Yeah cos I KNOW how to do that :-?

Im a ps idiot remember :lol: anything I do in it is merely accident.