Laddie was rolling on the floor, nuzzling the carpet and desperately trying to attract my attention. He is so camera-shy I thought I'd make the most of the moment and put the camera on the floor. As I pressed the button he knew something was up but I love the look on his face! Not a great shot at all but I love the little pink pawpads and the kittenish look in his eyes!
@woot Yes the graininess drove me potty - it was quite dark down there and as he has so much black it was hard to pick eg his ears out! I increased the contrast and the shadows a little but couldn't think what else to do. Once it was cropped it was even more obvious... any ideas?
@filsie65 I know you can reduce the grainess with some selective blur: it is meant to leave the edges as they are, but but fill the "omogeneous" areas with the average colour. I'm not an expert with it and I usually don't put much brain in filling the input values, but you can get great results. I've used twice with success: the first time was here http://365project.org/woot/365/2011-12-01 and worked GREAT removing the dust bits on the lamp, the other time was here http://365project.org/woot/365/2012-01-16 where I selectively applied it only to the thighs which were a bit grainy
@woot Gosh those two shots were edited brilliantly, I couldn't see any sign of blurring or graininess at all, even when told where to look! Couldn't find a selective blur but found a new toy called burning and had a go... got rid of a fair bit of the graininess, he looks more himself now! Hope you like it, thanks for the help :)
@filsie65 oh great, I love it (I actually liked it also when grainy): great job! I did not mention the most important thing: I use GIMP for editing my pictures and the filter is under the menu "filters->blur->selective gaussian blur"
@woot Me too! Must check out that Gimp... heard it mentioned before but I'm still very much a novice to any sort of processing. With picnik going I ought to look further afield. Have a good weekend and thank you again! :)
