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Post-processing dark wreck photographs?

  • 27-06-2011 12:02pm
    #1
    joeKel73
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭


    Hey,

    I was diving the wreck of the Laurentic on Saturday evening and got a few shots. I was shooting at 1/50sec at iso1600 with the aperture wide open on my Canon G10 so got as much light in as I could without too much camera shake. I couldn't use the on-camera flash as it'd bounce back of particles in the water. Unfortunately I didn't have the camera set on Raw which would have given me more room to play with. :o

    I'm trying to make the best of the photos I have - do any of you post-processing wizards have any tips?

    (Click Images for full-size originals)

    IMG_0017.jpg

    IMG_0018.jpg

    IMG_0005.jpgIMG_0004.jpg

    Finding it hard to edit photos on my laptop as the screen angle changes the brightness and contrast a lot.

    Thanks for any help! :)

    Joe


Comments

  • #2
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    The first one is a cracker, the others do nothing for me I'm afraid. The green hue and the grain gives it a night vision look which makes it seem like some sort of scene from a spy thriller.

    The last two are just too dark to make anything out. In terms of post processing I'm not sure what you could salvage (excuse the pun).

    The flashlight seems to be very powerful and would make a great backlight to silhouette the black suited diver. I can't imagine you're going to get too much detail in shots in these conditions so you're perhaps better off being creative with the light you have.


  • #3
    joeKel73
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭joeKel73


    On a PC here now and they're looking much darker again than my laptop. You can make out the boards of the wreck on the first one on my laptop.

    The next time I'll be bringing my tripod!


  • #4
    hbr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭hbr


    foto joe wrote: »
    On a PC here now and they're looking much darker again than my laptop. You can make out the boards of the wreck on the first one on my laptop.

    The next time I'll be bringing my tripod!

    I don't think my monitor is well calibrated so I wouldn't use it as a reference.
    I can just about make out the boards in #1. 30% brightness increase in the
    Gimp brings them up quite a bit. As there isn't a lot of fine detail in the photo,
    you could probably get away with using fairly heavy noise reduction.

    It won't make a great photo no matter what you do with it. At least
    you have a good excuse to go back again.


  • #5
    sheesh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh


    164905.jpg

    hi this is my effort tried to be smart about it and take out the three elements of the image and deal with them separately not sure how sucessful this effort has been.


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