[MJSfoto1956]

Some photos taken over the weekend at the annual "Great Chase" sponsored by the Hull Yacht Club, Hull MA.
All shot with a Pentax K-3ii + DA* 60-250mm, which I found to be a great combination out there in the bumpy surf.
All processed with DxO Optics Pro, piccure+, and Affinity Photo.

[MJSfoto1956]

some more photos of the "Great Chase" race taken this past weekend

[fwbigd]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

[biz-engineer]

Nice colors, I love those images. Thanks.

[lakeshore]

Thanks for posting those images. As a sailboat racer myself, I can appreciate the difficulties involved in taking them.

[MasMax]

Lovely images, thank you for posting them !!!

[Schraubstock]

Some photos taken over the weekend at the annual "Great Chase"

Nice.
If you use Topaz DeNoise you can get rid of the grain very nicely. I tried it on your JPGs.
Setting: Denoise Ver 6, Jpg light with Overall Strength increased to 0.15. It just improves the pictures to a very high level. Does not affect the sharpness or details of the boats, in fact it makes them appear more detailed as a result of the smooth sky. If you don't have Topaz, I guess other noise reduction software will do also, I just find Topaz DeNoise works well for me.

Cheers

By the way, the 60-250 works well on the K-1 also.

[rfg]

Nice.
If you use Topaz DeNoise you can get rid of the grain very nicely....

But I don't get why there is so much grain/noise in the first place, on what looks a nice sunny day. They look like ISO3200 or higher.

[MJSfoto1956]

But I don't get why there is so much grain/noise in the first place, on what looks a nice sunny day. They look like ISO3200 or higher.

LOL!

Let's get this part out of the way: I'm a professional photographer with over 38+ years in the business.

Having said that most of the images were indeed shot at ISO 100. So what gives? Why al the "noise"? Simple really: I hate the look of "smooth" photos. They look dead to me. So I always add film grain back into 100% of my images using DxO FilmPack. My favorite is Ilford Delta 400. Note that the grain is added @ 100% and when reduced to web size doesn't "disappear" but rather scales with the image.

Now lest you think this is a "waste" or mere subjective choice let me give you some advice: JPEGs that have a little noise in them print better than JPEGs without. And those JPEGs can also survive opening/saving much better than without. And it also prevents people from over-sharpening my already-sharpened images (who is silly enough to try to sharpen something with noise in it?). So think of it as a way to prevent people from "improving" my photos.

YMMV

Michael

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another view:



Michael

[gaweidert]

Great shots Michael. Love you explanation as to why you add grain to you photographs too. I am glad to see another person who rarely shoots with an ISO setting over 100. For me it is a habit from over 40 years of shooting film.

BTW, that boat with the Union Jack sail. Hopefully she was boarded, captured and taken as a prize. Any tea on board? In the US we tend to get a little testy when British vessels enter Boston Harbor.

[MJSfoto1956]

for those who want to "pixel peep" I present a 100% cropped slice of one of the images (keeping the amount of noise/grain I used for all these images):



Michael

[emalvick]

I agree with everything about the noise and grain.

Because I don't mind it, I am quite happy shooting with my K-3 to ISO 6400 or higher; I usually shoot TAv and have a limit at 6400 but occasionally shift to Av or M mode and let ISO drift up higher.

With black and white photos, I often find myself adding grain. It just feels better to see the grain in the photos and seems weird when it isn't there. I also always add a slight tint to my black and whites to give a bit of warmth. It seems more like a real photo and helps remove something that post-processing gives.

Those are fantastic photos, and I didn't even really notice the grain myself. If I had, I probably would just assume that you had to shoot at a higher ISO to get a fast shutter speed. I try not to pay close attention to Exif data when viewing other's photos. Actually, I try not to pay attention for my own photos, too. Once the photo is taken, it's taken. I only look if I have a rejected photo that I want to try again; then I try to learn from what went wrong.