I just loved that these fish seemed to be frozen in formation and delivered to the grocery store. School is never out for these guys!
This is just a fun shot I wanted to share. My little boy was just born, so I have been spent the last few days in the hospital with my wife, and have not exactly been able to be posting.
Haha… you really like fish! Congrats on the baby! Well, I’m in Thailand too, and was just at an aquarium looking at fish. I couldn’t help but notice that even in the tanks they stick together by species… even if there are only 2 or 3 of them!
Truth be told, I took this and the last fish photo on the same trip to the grocery story here in Chiangmai. Funny thing is, the grocery store, in an effort to sell the fish, has their own photograps of the iced fish at the front of the store, and I will tell you, they do not look appealing at all…just your normal point and shoot with a flash, squared off angle kind of shot.
Haha… yeah, I’ve been looking at signs and ads photos too, and I’ve been noticing how many of them have a lot of noise!
Well, noise is not always bad…not that I am defending noise, because it very much depends on the photograph. Sometimes, it just adds character.
I noticed some noise in fashion shots in the make-up section of a department store the other day (with my wife…not for me!). Those shots are known for being spotless, overly beautiful portraits of perfect people. In that case, I very much welcomed the grit of noise. It gave the photos a slight photojournalistic feel, making these beautiful people feel a little more normal.
I have actually been trying some tricks to force grain into my photos which I want to convert to black and white. Some of my favorite photos from photojournalists through history are full of grain and have such a “true grit” character about them.
True, noise is not always bad, and it can, like you said, add a unique element to some pictures. I guess the reason I mentioned it was because at that aquarium I mentioned, they had a very noisy picture with the aquarium name on it. It had the islands that are near here, but it was so noisy and cropped that you could see red, green, and dark dots everywhere on the islands. It was, in my opinion, way too grainy.
Too true, too true. I have seen this kind of stuff too. It brings up something, though. Grain passes much better in black & white. If you have grain in color, the grain shows up as red, green, and blue pixels, and that is not going to be attractive, rather it will draw away attention.
I have heard of professionals who do not worry much about grain, and shoot at high ISOs. It all depends. If you are printing small (think newsapapers), it will not matter much. And if you are printing in black & white, the grain could look like a classic photojournalistic photo.
I guess it could be said that noise can be ok if you know how to use it right.
Sure, and all you are seeing (it seems) on those adverts with all that noise it probably just junky photos, edited poorly, and displayed with no standards at all. So, that is just a different situation all together.