Nice effect, I liked how the edge is sharp but the center is not, interesting.

Thank you Tel, I think so too.

Do you have any tips to make it work, I don't mind loosing the detials as long as the emotion keeps in there...

Tried B&W since that mostly work with high noise photos.
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Thank you John.
I don't believe they make a larger aperture lens then f/2.8 above the 100mm, I can be wrong though.
ISO 1600 is the highest you can get with the K10D...
This already a 50%crop so with 100mm you will get a 25%crop and that at iso1600...

Later I will upload some other photos with the TC, if you want I can do a crop 1:1 pixel crop so that you can see for yourself if the TC preform or not.
I wished I had taken my tripod or even my monopod with me, I didn't knew they had this little fellow.

Sorry that it isn't any better but I'm already amazed it's this good though. I'm very happy that you can see the gesture and that there is an conncetion between them.

[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/_IGP0337-800px.jpg[/IMG]

Settings are.
K10D
DFA 100mm + Tamron 2x TC
f/2.8
1/8 of a second
ISO 1600
around 50% cropped
Handheld

If someone has an idea to makes this better please tell me, I already did a lot about it but didn't want to push it... maybe I should though.

EDIT:
I run the image through another noise reduction program, so which one do you prefer?
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That looks very good, surely for iso1600.
I would crop a bit from the left so that everything is in the center and straighten it a bit too, but yes wonderfull shot.

Never mind my comment, I just see you took it at an angle ^^;

Wonderful shot,
You can very easely clone the twig out without losing the feathering.

It's very simple to zoom at 30%, simply fill in 30 were you see the zoom precentage

Also there is a button to get the print size, simply click on the zoom tool and where you can change the options of that tool you see print size, that's even easier

Nathan, I had hope it would have come today but..
Now need to wait till tuesday were I can test it later that night on some belly dancers

Simply set you DPI the same as your PPI and view at 100%, done.
Don't know how usefull though

Devide the DPI through your screen PPI and view at that precentage, the sizes should be compareable... atleast I believe it would be...

Alan, that looks marvelous, well done!