Low Lighting- Haven't been able to fix....

[JNichole]

Yeah I just joined the forum....

Anyway....we went to a 'Steampunk' wedding yesterday and the place was awesome, but the lighting was horrible and very low. Reminded me of Indiana Jones, actually...



So I am really not sure how to save this. I love the photo itself, any advice?

[spencer28n]

First off, congrats on the reall cool pics. Pretty good model, too. When I first saw these, I was reminded of the classic 1920 sexy woman look because of the hat and all.

With both pics I converted to Black and White in Photoshop CS2 using the steps found here then played around with highlights and shadows using masks.

P.S. First time using pics in a post let me know if I did it wrong.

Spencer

[AnneWynne]

I like the bw conversions. You could step it up a notch and apply either a lense effect (like sepia) or a vintage effect to the bw to make it look even older, more steam-punky.
I keep referring people to this site: CoffeeShop Free PS/PSE Actions! which has a lot of actions for doing cool stuff to photos.

Remember to work in layers/

Cheers
Anne (who is going to DragonCon Saturday...excited!)

[photorelive]

the black and white version of the pictures looks nice , but it needs some lightning , and to remove 1 or 2 black color by ( selective color tool ) ,
any way the picture look good