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Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

06/12/2005 06:59:00 AM · #1

Had to take a photo in the movie theatre this morning. Up by the door in the darker area leading to the theatre, flourescent lighting on the side, a group of people and a dog who insisted on keeping her tail to the camera.

Tried flash but that wasn't strong enough to do anything (only got the oncamera one) so put the ISO up to 1600, slowish shutter speed and crossed fingers. Colours were very blue as I didn't alter WB (not sure as haven't taken photos in this type of lighting before) I've used NI as there was a lot of noise at 1600.

This is the best I've come up with so far, but the colours are still strange. Have to email it through to the paper tonight. Any ways to improve please :))))))

SDW

Canon EOS-60D

06/12/2005 07:05:29 AM · #2

A quick try

06/12/2005 07:08:49 AM · #3

That's good Scott, what'd you do? I'm using ps7

Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

06/12/2005 07:11:25 AM · #4

Other alternative is that I convert it to b/w and just send that through. The colour of the movie theatre manager's uniform is blue and just noticed that I'm losing that with the editing.

SDW

Canon EOS-60D

06/12/2005 07:12:37 AM · #5

Originally posted by suemack:

That's good Scott, what'd you do? I'm using ps7

There is a feature in CS [I can't remember if its in PS7] Called Variations under Image > Adjustments. I went there and applied a more of a yellow tone to the pic. Went back and adjusted levels, contrast, and color. Then went back to Variations and applied some red. Then I went to hue/saturation and dropped the blue 50% while increasing its hue by 25%. Then I went back to Levels, Contrast, and Color. Then applied one USM at 150/.3/0 and saved as web.

Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8 L IS

06/12/2005 07:17:28 AM · #6

Thankyou :))

kirbic

Canon EOS R5

06/12/2005 09:53:51 AM · #7

Sue,
As you surmised, the mixed lighting is sure trouble. Here's an example of how you can sometimes deal with rescuing an image like this:

The results can be quite acceptable, but do bear in mind that the colors of some objects in a photo adjusted this way can shift rather dramatically. Still, I've found it a great way to corect extreme problems that curves has trouble addressing.

Message edited by author 2005-06-12 09:55:49.