Street - Sk8er Boy

[Lesley Jones]

I think that's how it's written. Not great quality this one, with the ISO pushed to 6400, but I managed to remove the stubborn noise by hand. I like the reflective pose though and he was in front of some of the most interesting graffiti

 

[Pete Askew]

Ah, but content is king. And this has it in bucket loads. Love it.

 

[Lesley Jones]

And to think I wasn't going to post it...

 

[Darren Turner]

Brilliant, really like graffiti shots and this is defo a corker.........!!

Daz

 

[Rob MacKillop]

One of your best...

 

[Hamish Gill]

What's the process of removing noise by hand?
Great shot indeed...

 

[Lesley Jones]

Oh Hamish - you are going to wish you hadn't asked! The older version of RAW didn't work very well and I was left with horrible green and magenta blotches. Anything neutral was desaturated about 50% and the floor was darkened a tad. I must have done something with the white graffiti, but I can't remember now. The boy was the worst and at full zoom I carefully cloned tiny clean areas to make slightly larger clean areas. The heal tool (if used in the right way) then created brand new cleaner areas and so on. I don't like cloning too much because of the repeating patterns. I'm sure there is a better way now, but I was working with Elements back then.

I've hand sharpened special photographs before now - lacking any decent knowledge of Photoshop, I tend to make it up as I go along...

 

[alfie Wright]

Another great image Lesley. Really like this.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Blimey sounds laborious!
Good effort though!
I just use the noise reduction in LR I've never worried more than that ... Maybe I should ...

 

[Lesley Jones]

I shoot very little, so spending a bit of time on what I do get isn't a problem. This isn't laborious though - I used to spend up to three or five hours on just one baby image. If that is all the parents have, I didn't mind spending the time getting it right...

 

[Hamish Gill]

I think this is the image that i have spent the most time on... at least it is one that stands out as taking a lot of time to work on ... http://www.realphotographersforum.com/flora/1290-some-dead-yellow-roses.html
very very satisfying, so i do know where you are coming from really!