Digital noise: Horrid or just obnoxious.

[tbob]

Lots of comments, but I haven't seen anyone writing that they can't look at the image because of the nasty noise.

I know that as the creator of the image your probably going in close and looking for every blemish. But, honestly, in the real world, if I see this hanging on a wall, I'm going to stand back so that I see the overall effect of the image. In which case, a bit of noise is not going to get in the way, nor is it going to significantly impact on my viewing pleasure ... or not as the case may be.

Maybe I should occupy the artistic high ground and state that this is an intentional look. Then I can get all snooty and harrumph at any critics lack of artistic appreciation.

[bnnrcn]

They are all nice Trevor . The ones with noise have a painterly look, so I wouldn't worry about the noise issue very much

[NorthernFocus]

That's what you get for going out shooting at night. Noise indeed...

[tbob]

That's what you get for going out shooting at night. Noise indeed...

Noise not my only problem. I did not dress heavily thinking it was only minus 2C. I forgot the insidious nature of even a light breeze, 5 km per hour (3 mph)or so. After an hour I was too chilled to continue. The final straw was when I walked away from the tripod to checkout a different angle and then spent five minutes trying to get the tripod silhouetted against the horizon so I could find it. Decidedly hypothermic to get that confused.

By the way, your polar bear shots are brilliant.

[IzzieK]

I like the second and of course the third one is a fabulous shot! Sorry I am late to this party...just keeping up with the post for now.

[NorthernFocus]

Noise not my only problem. I did not dress heavily thinking it was only minus 2C. I forgot the insidious nature of even a light breeze...

I can relate. On my recent polar bear shoot temperatures were just below freezing but the wind was anywhere between 5 and 30 mph. I was using the combination glove/mittens that pull back to reveal your fingers for shooting. There was a handwarmer packet in the end of each mitten. When shooting my fingers could only stand a couple of minutes of exposure before they lost sensation. I missed MANY shots due to fingers too cold to press the shutter or them being in my pockets warming up. By the third day I switched to Nordic style ski gloves and the warmer packs in my pockets. That worked much better.