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csubick · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 187

The following was among three shot that was rejected because of "Noise/Grain/Focus/Upsized." All were taken of the newspaper.

100% Crop
http://chandraphoto.com/Images/Business_CRW_4795-100%25.jpg

No cropping was done. I used an extention tube to get a life size macro which showd the grains of the newspaper.

I'm wondering if this grain the reviewer saw.

sapsiwai · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Posts: 298 Location: Mauritius

A lot of chromatic aberations. Some of which I circled. Nothing to do with the grains. Keep in mind that reviewers are most of the time right in their decisions. Everybody gets rejections.

Is a nice shot though but as a designer I would have preferred another pen.(just personal taste)

Tim · Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 458 Location: UK

A solution I would employ is to open the image in PS, open the hue / sat tool

Select the closest colour, move sat down to -80 , lightness up maybe 20 ish and then slide the colour bar along until the nasties dissapear... Should work well as the image is essentially B&W anyway.

csubick · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 187

Thanks for the help guys.

I was so focused on the noise/grain/upsize thing that I didn't even see the CA. I'll try fixing in photoshop as suggested.

Thanks again.