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<blockquote data-quote="Marcel" data-source="post: 86449" data-attributes="member: 3903">Hi Jeanie, welcome to Nikonites.I suspect that the lights were turned off when the cake was presented to the child, right? The camera does not see as well as our eyes. So the camera probably increased the iso to get the picture properly exposed with only candle light and this is probably why you've got grainy pictures. If you had used flash, then you wouldn't have seen the candle light effect, but the iso would have stayed low to prevent grain.Depending on how bad this is, you might be able to recover some information with a post processing program (Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, or Lightroom). These also have noise reduction capacities that could help in your case. I'd start by giving this option a good trial.But for us, it's pretty hard to know in advance what the final result could be without seeing the actual photo you took. So maybe if you'd post it in, we could really help you more.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marcel, post: 86449, member: 3903"] Hi Jeanie, welcome to Nikonites. I suspect that the lights were turned off when the cake was presented to the child, right? The camera does not see as well as our eyes. So the camera probably increased the iso to get the picture properly exposed with only candle light and this is probably why you've got grainy pictures. If you had used flash, then you wouldn't have seen the candle light effect, but the iso would have stayed low to prevent grain. Depending on how bad this is, you might be able to recover some information with a post processing program (Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, or Lightroom). These also have noise reduction capacities that could help in your case. I'd start by giving this option a good trial. But for us, it's pretty hard to know in advance what the final result could be without seeing the actual photo you took. So maybe if you'd post it in, we could really help you more. [/QUOTE]

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