Digital BW, The Print

I use Noise Ninja with the images from my 300d and then add back some 
grain with Grain Surgery. It has a Tri-X profile that I like a lot. It 
also allow you to adjust the strength of the grain individually for 
shadows, midtones and highlights and also let you control the size of 
the grain. I don't add a lot though, just enough to give the image some 
texture. I much prefer the look of the Tri-X profile in Grain Surgery to 
the original digital high iso noise which just looks ugly to me.

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Daniel Staver
http://daniel.staver.no

John Moody wrote:
> It sounds like you are doing fine, but it may be worth producing the same
> print without the noise ninja step.  Based on the comparison comments, you
> may take a critical look at tweaking the settings used with noise ninja.  I
> found that I have been using progressively less noise reduction over time.
> My initial results had minor but unnatural \ufffddigital\ufffd smoothing of details.
> Critical critiques helped me identify what initially was not obvious to me,
> but was so, to more experienced folks.