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What I've found is that most people (both photographers and viewers) enjoy grain in black & white photos, but not in colour.
Same with me, basically - though there are examples where grain does not bother me at all, where I even love to see it, where I really enjoy to be able to see the chemicals at work, so to say..Example below is 800 iso as well (CineStill 800T, shot in daylight, corrected in post).
I like it, grain and all, but it starts to get a bit washed out and "meh" in the background, which is overexposed.
I'm not an expert, but I guess it's crucial to get exposure really right to get great high iso shots.
Also there's film that gives (to my eyes) a "nice grain", Portra 800 for example,
and other film that gives grain that almost looks a bit like digital noise (Superia 1600 for example).
Just bought two rolls of the latter anyway because they were 50% off, shooting them at 3200 and having them push-developed, so that'll be a grain fest!
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Not a massive improvement, but removing colour noise and a tiny bit of gaussian blur helps to make the grain seem less obtrusive ... ? maybe?
(hope you don't mind me fiddling with your image?)
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Yes that was the best of the lot - this one's more typical, and probably pushing the limits.
Thanks for your response - it was kind of what I suspected - probably beyond my capacity in both skill and patience....
Think I'll be embracing the grain as you suggest! - a million times better than the detestable speckle you get from amplified CCD signals on high-iso digital images
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