remembrance Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

The first of November. It is a day of cumulation and a day to remember those, who are gone, or their souls could start traveling the world.
We usually go to cemetery to light up a candle as a symbol that we stil think about this person. All graveyards look fantastic and bewitching as candles are lit all over.
Unlike Halloween, it is an evening of peace and quietness.

btw, I really can't decide how could I improve cropping in this pic
(and I think I've added too much sharpness.. cause details are still gloommy, but grain is emphasized more.) Or this pic shouldn't be here too :\ just tell me what do you think.. as it isn't too sharp.. but as a night photo without any flash :p

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richtersl (3544) 2003-11-30 9:09

Paul, the crop looks fine and the mood of the picture is also very nice. You took this photo under some very difficult lighting circumstances.

I believe the grain is caused by how your camera handles things under low light situations such as this. Unfortunately it is a problem with many digital cameras.

The grain, or noise can be improved by downloading something called NeatImage. Many folks here use it to clean up noise and artifacts from photos. It is not perfect, by any means, but it does help. Plus, the demo you can download is FREE!

I ran your photo through NeatImage to show you what it can do. The photo is not perfect because I did not play with the adjustments enough, but you can see a difference.