Regarding the shot, you could have used a larger aperture (as large as possible for that focal length, the smallest value you can get). You could also try a little slower shutter speed, up to 1/30, standing VERY still or using a tripod or a table as support, taking a few shots, like a dozen, to be sure to have at least one completely still. And move her closer to the lights.
The room was quite dark (according to the shot exif data), the flash should have fired. When there is low light I prefer to use shutter priority because the camera will already choose the larger aperture. It's very hard to estimate the amount of light in a room using the eyes because eyes adapts a lot, ISO, speed, etc. are a better reference. Regarding darktable see the attached file for my attempt at recovering the picture. Consider that for screen display and small/medium prints in my opinion the file is completely usable, do not focus too much on 100% view, prints are quite forgiving. I used a lot of raw denoise, plus two other denoise steps (luma and chroma), lowered the sharpening not to enhanche the noise and used local contrast and equalizer to bring back some contrast. Lowpass filter to remove some color halos. White balance and tone curve for fine tuning. Bye Lorenzo Il giorno dom 7 apr 2019 alle ore 17:46 Niranjan Rao <nhr...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Greetings, > > > Version 2.6.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 > > I am just a beginner and learning my way around. I read a lot, watch > video tutorials, play around the knobs on camera and in darktable only > on "safe unimportant" photos. Otherwise I stay safe on auto mode. > > > Yesterday was a special day and she was all dressed up. I forgot my > camera was not on auto mode. Results are all noisy and grainy and my > limited experience does not help me to cleanup the results. Thankfully I > have some photos from my phone camera which are looking better than my > Canon camera photos. > > > At this point, except from camera being on Av mode, I don't remember any > other settings such as exposure changed from default. I did turn on the > flash as camera prompted me to turn on the flash even if there was > plenty of light in the room. > > > I have uploaded one CR2 file at > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CUTt7tEo0rmKwP99akAmJaV8dpJr6TBz/view?usp=sharing > > Is there a way to redeem myself? If you can save the day, please let me > know the steps so that I can apply to other pictures. > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Niranjan > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
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