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recovering severely underexposed pics in C1?

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cam

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long story short, i was a numbskull... was shooting in manual for bright stage lights (f/1, 1/125, 160) and then forgot to return to normal after the show.

as luck would have it, i have a few shots that i really quite like... when i worked on one of them, i was pretty amazed a how much detail i could recover (M8), but the artifacts were quite nasty -- especially on a face.

is there some sort of magic that can be worked? does normal noise reduction work in this instance? i've been playing around with different variants (using C1 and/or CS3), but haven't been successful.

i won't die if it can't be done, i'm just curious if anybody has been successful in case i get sloppy again in the future.

TIA.
 
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dougpeterson

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cam said:
long story short, i was a numbskull... was shooting in manual for bright stage lights (f/1, 1/125, 160) and then forgot to return to normal after the show.

as luck would have it, i have a few shots that i really quite like... when i worked on one of them, i was pretty amazed a how much detail i could recover (M8), but the artifacts were quite nasty -- especially on a face.

is there some sort of magic that can be worked? does normal noise reduction work in this instance? i've been playing around with different variants (using C1 and/or CS3), but haven't been successful.

i won't die if it can't be done, i'm just curious if anybody has been successful in case i get sloppy again in the future.

TIA.
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Depending on the color of the light in the room you may find that one of the three channels (R, B, or G) had more light. Also, the blue channel is usually the noisiest. So if you convert to black and white in Photoshop using only, e.g. the red channel you may find far less noise.

Of course then it would be black and white :).

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cam

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thank you, Doug!

in this case, i think i'm kind of screwed... but it was a very interesting exercise playing around with the channels. i hope i've learned my lesson.

luckily, i rarely screw up so badly (or at least realise what's going on sooner). that's what i get from not chimping, i suppose. silly me. the champagne and wine had nothing to do with it, i swear!
 
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