Carpet Crawlers Rehearsal, Liverpool

[TonyP]

Brian Cummins of the Genesis Tribute 'The Carpet Crawlers'

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj75/SignorMorto/crawlers/rehearsal3-1-1.jpg

[René Damkot]

Actually like the hazy atmosphere.
A bit of added contrast (without loosing the hazy "feel") might improve it however.

[TonyP]

Actually like the hazy atmosphere.
A bit of added contrast (without loosing the hazy "feel") might improve it however.

Thank you for that René - A crowded rehearsal room, smoke machine working overtime and the front lighting failed.... I guess nearly every shot had the channels blown (thats the correct phrase ?) The only thing I could do was to de-saturate the shot. As you can see I'm new to this technique and so would welcome any tips that anybody has to offer to perfect this kind of shot. I have Photoshop CS available.

[René Damkot]

Well, the shot is underexposed IMO. About a stop.

Here's a quick edit:

Downloaded the image, and assigned sRGB.
Then did this:

http://img.skitch.com/20081108-d13gnkq9stt8upns5xkcrmfhr1.jpg

To get this:
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Quite a bit of banding because it's a severe adjustment on an 8 bpc image. You could do better in Raw or 16bpc.

[TonyP]

Well, the shot is underexposed IMO. About a stop.

Here's a quick edit:

Downloaded the image, and assigned sRGB.
Then did this:

http://img.skitch.com/20081108-d13gnkq9stt8upns5xkcrmfhr1.jpg

To get this:
318254


Quite a bit of banding because it's a severe adjustment on an 8 bpc image. You could do better in Raw or 16bpc.

Thanks for sharing that René, you've given me something to aim for :)