X-Country - first try

[run53]

Hi.....I am new to this and I have no clue on what I could do to improve it. I did some PP (saturation, cloning, sharp, noise reduc) but I'm not that good at it. I blocked out the team name to protect the child.

Any/all criticism is welcomed.

http://wintergreen.homeip.net/xc.jpg

[Dan-o]

Why did you do a noise reduc.? Undo that step and it will look good.

[cpu2k]

Noise reduction is used when you took the picture with high ISO... if there is no visible noise in the original, using noise reduction will muddle the fine details...

[run53]

I appreciate the comments.

I will try without the noise reduction to see how it looks. I'll have to look at the xiff when I get home from work but I think it was taken at 400 ISO. So, when I looked at it at 100% it looked noisy to me. It seems I get noise with my XT on anything greater than 200. Perhaps I shouldn't be making that decision based on the 100% image?

[Dan-o]

Noise reduction just seems to have softened everything too much.

[myckul]

nothing wrong with some noise... i would take an image with noise over an image that looks to soft over noise reduction.... nice capture though the colors look good

[run53]

Noise reduction just seems to have softened everything too much.

Yea...I agree...that's probably why it doesn't jump out at me. I'll post a version tonight w/o the noise reduc.