The background of the photos look a bit grainy. What ISO setting did you use?
Kay Heem
i was wondering about the grains too - is that artefacts from post processing? i can't believe the d70 did that.
Hi guys,
Thanks for your comments.
I was using ISO 400 today.
Regarding the graininess in most of my pictures, yeah, that's always been a problem with a lot of my pictures. I somehow think that they are indirectly caused by the fact that I am still using only a cheap < S$200 lens. The thing about cheaper lenses (and worse still, a cheap zoom) is that while everything seems OK when you're out shooting, when the images are blown up to full size for editing on the computer, the pictures all turn out really soft and I have to resort to some digital sharpening using photoshop. Once I do that, the image will become a little grainy. This effect is more obvious to the viewer if the final image was cropped out from close to the actual resolution at which the picture was taken at - which I usually do. To avoid this problem, I can actually crop the desired area only
after processing and re-sizing ... resulting in 'cleaner' but relatively smaller looking subjects.
Example :
Compare the picture above with the one I originally posted (last pic).
... of it's prey.
