Whew... Here's a first!

mizuno wrote in post #4033030
Possibly shot at ISO400, but underexposed and brought up in post process?

They were shot at ISO400 and brought up in post-processing. There wasn't enough ambient lighting in the background to distinguish some of the darker clothing (i.e. the suits and tuxes) so I had to fill in some of the lighting. All of the pp'ing was done in Lightroom on RAW files.

I wasn't too picky about the noise b/c if I remember reading somewhere on here, it was mentioned that when you print the photos, the noise is not really noticeable. Plus, for the most part, it's not something that really registers with the layperson.

Next time though, I have to work on working more with the ambient lighting and possibly an off-camera flash.

Thanks for commenting guys.

edit: Oh and that last photo of the set... the wall was actually kind of "noisy" so it looks extra noisy there... the wallpaper was some ugly, yellow textured material that made the photo look noisy even before I pp'd it. Yuck.

They look good, but if I were you I'd run them through NoiseWare.

JJacula wrote in post #4033155
They look good, but if I were you I'd run them through NoiseWare.

Thanks Jennifer... I do have Noise Ninja installed. Maybe I'll run them through later.

Was the noise on purpose?

csm328 wrote in post #4035483
Was the noise on purpose?

Hey Wayne, the noise wasn't necessarily on purpose but I didn't correct it either b/c I didn't think it was that big of a deal... but it seems like, from the comments that I'm getting here, that it is. I personally don't mind the noise and my friend did not notice it either.

If you had shot at 800 or 1600 they would have been better exposed and had less noise than shooting at 400 and editing them lighter.
Having said that, I lve the old man expression, dancing with his daughter.

tony fanning wrote in post #4038189
If you had shot at 800 or 1600 they would have been better exposed and had less noise than shooting at 400 and editing them lighter.
Having said that, I lve the old man expression, dancing with his daughter.

Thanks for the comments Tony. I do like that one a lot too!

It wasn't so much that the photos were underexposed (the subjects were properly exposed), it was more that I didn't have anything backlighting the subjects so I had to use the "fill light" option in Lightroom a bit to make the subjects stand out a bit from the dark background. I'll keep that in mind for next time though!

I like the way you captured the expression. Nice.
Yah just like others point out, noise-y.