I was covering the use of grain in my Photoshop class this week. I found a number of students didn’t understand why you would want to emphasize grain (or noise) in an image. Even some of the young photographers didn’t get it. I shared an “old man” story about push-processing Tri-X and how the accentuated grain added some grit and character to the image. I don’t think they saw why that would be desirable. There may be a generational issue at play. I added grain to this shot of Lauren WK because I thought it looked better. @samsanchezphoto