What Am I Doing Wrong?

[Arcusmedia]

So I have noticed lately that my photos are VERY noisy..

I am shooting at low ISOs and do not understand why...

Here is one example... Shot at f/5.6 1/50 s Iso 400 55-200@55MM



Please let me know what i can do to improve it!

Thanks Guys!

[Jake]

It's hard to tell much from the resized web photo, but iso 400 isn't really that low. Can you post a 100% crop?
Are you bringing up the exposure any in post?

[Arcusmedia]

Crop

[Jake]

Maybe it's my office monitor, but that doesn't look that noisy to me.

[groovyone]

Looks fine to me too on a 24"

[Arcusmedia]

here is the final image notice the noise now?

[groovyone]

Can you link to the full size?

[Tom]

I don't really see noise, but I would say this:

Shot at f/5.6 1/50 s Iso 400 55-200@55MM

Don't shoot that lens wide open.
Shoot faster than 1/50th s for a sharper pic
Buy a 50mm 1.8 for better quality pics.
Buy a steamer to get the wrinkles out of your background.

All that will help your general shooting. As for noise, the examples you have shown aren't showing much.

[Arcusmedia]

Noise

[ualymerej]

what's your definition of "noise"... cause I'm not seeing what I know as "noise"...

[Kalrog]

As far as I can tell - the only thing you are doing wrong with respect to noise... is calling something noise that I don't call noise. I think you are good!

[the kid]

Did you sharpen?

[texkam]

Tweaking colors in post processing can give you some problems.

[groovyone]

Originally Posted by texkam

Tweaking colors in post processing can give you some problems.

I think this is what you are calling the noise. It seems more like artifacts from the color shift.

[j1mmyj4m]

I don't see any noise either.