Can this image be saved?

Chile Chef

Can this image be saved?

Please say yes.


I did a bone head move and I forgot to put the iso on 400, and the flash on et +1/4




Can some one fix this image for me?

Tim Kamppinen

Slim chance. Especially of someone else doing it for you, because this is a jpeg file and it's going to look terrible if you try to crank up the exposure in post. Did you shoot it in RAW? If so you can see what's possible in camera raw or lightroom. I had a shot one time of a basketball game where shot twice in a row too fast for the strobes to recycle and the shot was almost black, but it was a great shot otherwise so I wanted to do everything possible to save it. I cranked up the exposure slider almost 3 stops and added some fill light. It looked really bad. Totally covered with noise and the colors were awful. I was able, however, with some noise reduction and high pass sharpening to improve things a bit and then converted it to black and white, and it actually came out looking really nice. There was still a lot of noise but as a black and white it gave more of an impression of film grain so it wasn't really a problem and in a way added to the shot. You could try something like this with the shot...

However, if possible just go back and reshoot if you are able to. This shot isn't about "the moment" (as far as I can tell, really I'm just barely able to make out that it's a horse) so just take another.

Chile Chef

Tim Kamppinen wrote:

Slim chance. Especially of someone else doing it for you, because this is a jpeg file and it's going to look terrible if you try to crank up the exposure in post. Did you shoot it in RAW? If so you can see what's possible in camera raw or lightroom. I had a shot one time of a basketball game where shot twice in a row too fast for the strobes to recycle and the shot was almost black, but it was a great shot otherwise so I wanted to do everything possible to save it. I cranked up the exposure slider almost 3 stops and added some fill light. It looked really bad. Totally covered with noise and the colors were awful. I was able, however, with some noise reduction and high pass sharpening to improve things a bit and then converted it to black and white, and it actually came out looking really nice. There was still a lot of noise but as a black and white it gave more of an impression of film grain so it wasn't really a problem and in a way added to the shot. You could try something like this with the shot...

However, if possible just go back and reshoot if you are able to. This shot isn't about "the moment" (as far as I can tell, really I'm just barely able to make out that it's a horse) so just take another.

Thanks Mate,

I didn't shoot it in raw, I should probably shoot in raw from now on, huh?


And I dought I can go back and reshoot it, However I probably can find a different horse Ranch some where.

Richard

Chile Chef wrote:

Can some one fix this image for me?

I gave it a shot, but the results are not worth posting. There's just not enough to work with here...sorry.

Chile Chef

Richard wrote:

I gave it a shot, but the results are not worth posting. There's just not enough to work with here...sorry.

It comes out all nasty doesn't it?

BGtom

Well, that depends...What is your definition of "saving?" True enough, there is nothing in the histogram. But if all you need to do is prove Blackey the horse was in flagrante delicto with Alan Strang...

Chile Chef wrote:

Can this image be saved?

Too much? Fascinating movie, though. Highly recommended.

jfriend

Chile Chef wrote:

Can this image be saved?

Please say yes.


I did a bone head move and I forgot to put the iso on 400, and the flash on et +1/4


Can some one fix this image for me?

This is what's in there by applying a strong curve to the part of the image that contains data. This result is without any noise reduction. You can decide whether it's worth doing anything with this level of result or not.

Chile Chef

Jf, That's the exact same result's I get when I try.

jfriend

Chile Chef wrote:

Jf, That's the exact same result's I get when I try.

Were you hoping for something different?

Chile Chef

jfriend wrote:

Were you hoping for something different?

I was, I know photoshop well, but some one always knows more then the next guy/girl.

So I was hoping that was the case in my case!


By the way I'm shooting in raw from now on and I'm in love with raw.

It saves your images and you got a lot more options specially coupled with photoshop.

Sam

I could do better if I had the RAW file.

Sam

Chile Chef

Sam wrote:

I could do better if I had the RAW file.

Sam

Thank you Sam, I didn't shoot in Raw that time. But I'm going to shoot in raw from now on though.

pathfinder

My solution to images like that is to delete them in the camera.......

not to try to fix them after the fact.

Cameron

pathfinder wrote:

My solution to images like that is to delete them in the camera.......

not to try to fix them after the fact.

Agreed. While RAW allows more latitude after the fact, there is no substitute for getting the shot right in-camera.

Chile Chef

Thanks everyone.

I've seen the light "raw light" and I like it.

I'm never going back to jpg quality again "in camera ayways"