Amateur boxing

Taken at a local amateur boxing event

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Were you shooting from the crowd? #1 seems really noisy, otherwise I like the exposure and timing.

joeblack2022 wrote in post #15927131
Were you shooting from the crowd? #1 seems really noisy, otherwise I like the exposure and timing.

I agree but my first thought was that he added the grain to give the boxer toughness? cant imagine being tough on a smooth canvas

I was shooting from the back of the crowd on a platform. Sigma 70-200mm f2.8 wide open and high ISO, #1 was under exposed so when I processed the raw you could really see the noise, I didn't want to go nuts on the noise reduction and like you's have mentioned it leaves it a bit gritty, I ended up doing a conversion to B&W and it works better, will probably post that later.

Thanks for your comments