Photoshot Help: Lighting

[Maritimuz]

All,

I snapped the most amazing moment of a friend of mine on stage last week. I was very disappointed to find that my flash didn't fire. The shot is too dark to serve any purpose as is. I attempted a Photoshop save, but have not succeeded. Can anyone help? If you do manage to get something, can you provide some insight to technique?

I appreciate any help.

Tara

[Dennismc]

Tried a little with cs4, converted to b/w but the low light has a lot of noise to work with.

Also tried a little lighting effects but to tired to really focus on it tonight. I know the above isnt that good either but maybe someone else can help more..


Dennis

[PrimeTime]

[QUOTE=Maritimuz;882732]All,

I snapped the most amazing moment of a friend of mine on stage last week. I was very disappointed to find that my flash didn't fire. The shot is too dark to serve any purpose as is. I attempted a Photoshop save, but have not succeeded. Can anyone help? If you do manage to get something, can you provide some insight to technique?

I appreciate any help.

Tara

Hi tara. Your friend is very pretty. If you shot this in raw, you should be able to brighten it up some with the raw converter. Just increase the exposure slider as much as you can untill the image starts to degrade. If this is a jpeg, you won't be able to get it nearly as good.
If you duplicate the image and set the layer to screen, it will brighten it up some. If you duplicate the screen layer a couple more times it will keep getting brighter. Unfortunately it will get very grainy because of being so underexposed, but it looks alot better. You might be best off to convert it to B&W because of the graininess, or make it look like an old photo .

B&W (just desaturated and set to luminosity)




Old photo look with gimp plug in conversion