Seems a bit too noisey to me

[Cobra]

Nothing done apart from a resize not cropped EXIF intact

quite a tight crop ( from the original and then resized)
as you can see but I don't think it should be that noisey EXIF intact and shot in "largest" jpeg file
Any suggestions :shrug:
Ta
Taken in natural daylight BTW ( no lights on in the arena)

 

[pxl8]

I suspect the issue is largely because most of the tones showing grain are darker areas of the shot and the darker tones have less bandwidth available to start with. This is a good example of where exposing to the right would show some real benefits. Shooting raw would help as well, esp. with the 40D and it's 14bit colour depth.

 

[Forbiddenbiker]

Does look odd that, especially for a Cannon... Only thing I can see, ... is that they look like you've missed the focus point, looks like it may have been the wall rather than the horse.


:shrug:

 

[Cobra]

I suspect the issue is largely because most of the tones showing grain are darker areas of the shot and the darker tones have less bandwidth available to start with. This is a good example of where exposing to the right would show some real benefits. Shooting raw would help as well, esp. with the 40D and it's 14bit colour depth.

Thanks for the link I think you may have cracked it

Does look odd that, especially for a Cannon... Only thing I can see, ... is that they look like you've missed the focus point, looks like it may have been the wall rather than the horse.


:shrug:

I conceed the the focus could be a bit off but I have other images from that session that are definately "bang on" and with a simlar effect :shrug:

 

[Venomator]

I suspect the issue is largely because most of the tones showing grain are darker areas of the shot and the darker tones have less bandwidth available to start with. This is a good example of where exposing to the right would show some real benefits. Shooting raw would help as well, esp. with the 40D and it's 14bit colour depth.

That's a great linky Pxl8 ... ... very informative and in eezi-speek too ... ... thanx ...