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>>79254 1. Are you the same Slim that used to post on here?
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Usually cheesy. More importantly, what ISO did you shoot this at? I'm usually firmly in the "noise doesn't matter all that much" camp, but wow. I honestly don't think I've seen a shot with more objectionable noise than that.
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A little bit of fill flash *might* help. I'm no flash guru, so I'm not sure. Ask pskaught or Heavyweather.
A slightly higher exposure, dressing your model for her colors to contrast more with the ground, shooting at a lower ISO, and having less depth of field would definitely help. Why were you shooting at f/5? The S3 opens up to f/2.8. That's almost two stops of light you're wasting for no reason- the smaller aperture hurt your picture and made you bump the ISO up to a bad level for your camera.
Go for a slower shutter speed to get a slower ISO with your camera. The thing about small-sensor cameras is that the ISO should only be taken off 100 (80 and 100 on the S3) if your shutter speed (on a stabilized camera like the S3) is getting below 1/10th or so handheld, only off 200 to 400 if you really need it, only to 800 if it's the only possible way to get the shot. Like I said, I don't find noise to be a huge problem, but when it makes it hard to tell where the edges of things are in an image (one of your problems here) it's a problem.
The advantage is that the S3 has IS and no mirror vibration. Learn to hold the camera right, and in most shooting situations, you'll have no problem with the ISO or noise. David Alan Harvey shot his entire Cuba book on ISO 50 film. Granted, he had lenses two stops faster than yours, but you have IS and ISO 80 and 100. ISO 100 is one stop; IS is at least one more.
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