This is a small crop from a larger image. Due to shooting in high ISO under low light, stage lighting to be exact, I ended up with some colour noise (shadow) on the left cheek of this performer. Some cameras can handle high ISO noise better than other cameras. Both the Canon 350D XT and 20D are quite better at this than my 300D which is what I used to take this image. Also, the closer you can get to the subject the better the image.