I shot this on a dark, rainy morning on my walk to work. I shot it on an Optio S5i (my wife likes to keep the K100D at home during the day, in case the baby does something cute, which, of course, he does unfailingly) at ISO 400, -1 EV, and pushed it in PP. I used the channel mixer in CS2 to convert to grayscale, which is really the only way I find digital noise tolerable. It reminds me of high speed film. Though I'm not crazy about the composition (the bottom right being particularly distracting), for a quick snap I thought this turned out pretty well:

[Finn]

And something else I just noticed -- that's some pretty serious vignetting. I've never noticed that on the camera before. Then again, it could just be from the backlit fog.

[db2]

Its great to play with this noise! Have you tried a really noisy portrait converterted to one bit? In this photo, for my taste more seagulls would have been better. Maybe buy some chips?