How does this picture sound/look

I took this on the 400d with the nifty fifty, just wanted to capture as much detail as possible, I like the way the reflections on the front of the mic, mirror the background also.

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Nice tone. All I'd say is that it's probably not a great idea to save a RAW conversion as an 8 bit PNG if you're going to re-edit and resave - you're putting the image through 2 layers of compression that is going to degrade the image. Try making the first save as a 16 bit uncompressed tiff - then export to an sRGB jpeg for final export.

There's a little chroma noise on the 100% crop, but I see that behaviour from the sensor on my 400d at that iso too - unless you want to consider NR, I wouldn't worry too much about it - it certainly doesn't seem to subjectively affect the image when reduced to display sized crops.

As for how the image "sounds" - It seems to have a bit of a Chinese accent from where I'm sat

Thanks for taking the time to comment Irreverent.

I thought PNG was lossless format that supported EXIF, thats why I went for it over JPEG which is lossy, see here

Your right about the noise, was tempted to run DPP's noise reduction on it, but decided not to as I was already in UFRaw and I was too lazy to open up a 2nd Raw converter

Ahh - I just learned something about PNG there. I was mistaken all this time - I'd always believed it was a lossy format.

Thanks for setting me straight