God took a peek

[deck]

Hello, I recently acquired a DSLR and Im playing with it lately, I took this with f/11, 1/1000sec at ISO100,
Post Processing Done:
Image Resizing, Unsharp Mask, Curves, and Dodge

I also noticed a lot of noise after the post processing, i think its the unsharp mask, can anyone confirm this?
Anyways, comments are appreciated

[wulf]

Great picture, and even better viewed larger over on your Flickr account.

Unsharp mask certainly could be responsible for "noise"; it bumps up the contrast between anything that it thinks is a dividing line. In a shot like this, you might want to selectively apply the effect using a mask to paint out the areas where it doesn't work (or start with a grey mask, so you you can paint in more sharpening with white and less with black).

Wulf

[KagoGrl]

Wow. Stunning shot! Very well captured.

[deck]

Wulf-
Darn the unsharp mask! Im using photoshop, so if the tips you said can be found there maybe i'll work on this pic again over the weekend. Thanks
KagoGrl-
Thanks

[mdwsta4]

i have always wanted to take a picture like this, but have never had my camera on me when it comes about. great capture!

[freakdiver]

I like this shot!

very poetic and very clear.

God does look down once awhile