RETAIN THE GRAIN ON GUNNERA Tapestry

What a stunning plant by architectural design! The Giant Chilean Rhubarb plant or Gunnera... The textures and shapes are what first attracted me to this giant herbaceous perennial... Thinking about how I wanted to depict the capture, the smoothness of the stem, but the spikey-ness of the stem and the cabbage like texture of the leaves underneath... I chose to add rather than remove texture, by keeping grain. A higher ISO allowed for this - and I worked on the boundary of a higher setting to improve on capture of natural light... Knowing that I would have to work in post - I made minute adjustments in monochrome. Now I'm wondering what it would look like without the grain!