[Leica] CAUGHT IN... Williamsburg

[r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)]

Mark - Thanks for the hints.  I'll try give them a run through tonight.

Brooklyn rools, indeed.  I'm a 40's era Flatbush boy myself and my son  
and his wife have lived on Bedford Ave for about six years now.   That  
he somehow went from suburban Bedford MA kid to living on urban  
Bedford Ave in his father's old borough is more than this old brain  
can deal with.  But, what the hey, I'm only his Dad.

Lots of great restaurants within a few blocks of his place, too.  They  
may be the best kept secret in the City.

And... I still think Walter O'Malley is the lying-ist, cheating-ist,  
dirty-ist, SOB that ever lived.

As you say, small world.

Regards,

Dick



On Mar 06, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> Thanks for looking at all three George.  The noise is just there at
>> 1600 and I suppose one either learns to live with it or don't shoot
>> above 400 with these small sensor cameras.  Both the 1600 shots have
>> about a 25% luminance noise reduction applied in Lightroom, beyond
>> that details go away.
>>
>> For some reason, the noise doesn't look anywhere near as bad in a
>> print as long as you stay below 8x10.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick
>>
>>
> I think you could
> "run it through again"
> The raw filter in Photoshop paying particular attention to the noise
> settings. Which I've just figured out a lot better now.
>
> Third from the left with the two triangles.
> Noise Reduction
> Luminance bar
> Color bar
>
> Set your image to pixel to pixel - command option zero - one to one  
> - and
> drag the bars to the right until the noise disappears. You'll get a  
> kind of
> hand colored effect if you over do it but in many eyes this beats high
> noise.
>
> Also be aware of the sharpening bars right above it.
> If you have them set too high its not good for the noise effects.
> You're image will be like a blackened pizza.
>
> You could also select his chest area and do the dust and scratches  
> thing.
> Also two under the dust and scratches filter is the new "reduce noise"
> filter which can be applied locally. Depending on local ordnances and
> customs.
>
>
> Coincidently I got off the Bedford subway stop Williamsburg Brooklyn  
> two
> weeks and a day ago Feb 20th full moon to shoot a 67 Mustang for the
> NYTimes. The restaurant right across from the subway station was  
> owned by
> the car owner a quite excellent Italian restaurant IMO. I shot a ton  
> of
> shots in there in very low light levels using a 12-24mm f4.  Id shoot
> several shots of each thing and pick out the least  blurry one. Most  
> of them
> were just a tad faster than a full second. I'd never do that with  
> film.
> Don't understand why you'd be able to do that with digital and not  
> film.
>
> Turns out my Dad and his sisters grew up in Williamsburg Brooklyn in  
> the
> 30's and 40's. Small world.
> Its an awfully nice place to live now. I may move there.
>
> Brooklyn rools!
>
> Next year!
>
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> markrabiner.com
>
>
>
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