Mistake or materpiece?

[The Weird Witch]

I was out playing with my new camera, taking lots of pictures as you do, when about 3 or 4hrs into my session I discovered that I had accidently put the iso on a terribly high iso setting. When I got home I looked though all the pictures I had taken before I discovered my error, most of them are yuck! But I found this one I think I like, however Im not sure if its because I acually like the picture or if its just my attempt at denying my stupid time lost error.
Im hoping you guys can give me an unbiased opinion.
Thanks in advance.

[jiminyClickit]

The Weird Witch,

A good post processing practice piece, a good WWYD subject. Masterpiece? How much time are you willing to put into it?

[abyram]

It looks like you have plenty of noise in there, so that'll probably be hard to remove without making your image really soft or really grainy (particularly since the noise is so visible even when the image is so small). I did the same thing a few months back - I went out and took some shots that were pretty decent only to get home and realize I had the ISO set for 1600.

The good news is that you learn pretty quick to double check the ISO after something like that - so it's not a bad thing.

[Japaslavian]

Despite the noise, I'm a bit unclear as to what exactly I'm looking at, which I've found can either intrigue someone or bore them.
With no background information or context from other parts of the image I'm somewhat turned off.
Perhaps a different perspective/composition of this subject, or even some background information and what this particular image means to you would probably help me find a similar interest in it.

[The Weird Witch]

Originally Posted by Japaslavian

Despite the noise, I'm a bit unclear as to what exactly I'm looking at, which I've found can either intrigue someone or bore them.
With no background information or context from other parts of the image I'm somewhat turned off.
Perhaps a different perspective/composition of this subject, or even some background information and what this particular image means to you would probably help me find a similar interest in it.

Its a picture of the bad luck charms that have been tied to a tree in the grounds of a Japanese temple. When you get a bad luck charm you tie it to the tree so that the wind will disperse the bad luck. This was a tiny tiny tree but every single inch of it was covered in the charms, it was really cool.

@Jimmy I think with my current post processing skills (or more correctly lack of said skills) Im starting to think this picture is a lost cause.

[The Weird Witch]

Originally Posted by abyram

It looks like you have plenty of noise in there, so that'll probably be hard to remove without making your image really soft or really grainy (particularly since the noise is so visible even when the image is so small). I did the same thing a few months back - I went out and took some shots that were pretty decent only to get home and realize I had the ISO set for 1600.

The good news is that you learn pretty quick to double check the ISO after something like that - so it's not a bad thing.

Yup, Im never gonna forget to double check my iso settings again, thats for sure! The noise really makes me sad, cause without it I think it would have been a good picture (for me anyway).

[Olivier H]

Originally Posted by The Weird Witch

Yup, Im never gonna forget to double check my iso settings again, thats for sure! The noise really makes me sad, cause without it I think it would have been a good picture (for me anyway).

If you're like me, you'll forget one day

High noise levels aren't always bad!