Thanks for the tutorial. I really am very new to photography. Still in the Oops-forgot-to-check-the-ISO stage. This forum and kind people like you have been a great help to me. Thanks for sharing.
The only thing that made this a difficult capiture was that I was lazy, the event of a movie in a cementery had already been shot, the real movie was starting and I couldn't be bothered by actually fliping up the flash, fitting on a flash, which I didn't have with me in any event, that I couldn't realize that an asa of over 200 my be appropriate, or failing that, that exposure compensation was available...and lastly, simce the subject was black, that the meter might mis-read what was there in any event.
Shy, there probably isn't a thing in the world I could teach you about photography, but since you were polite enought to ask, what is interesting is how very little there was to work with:
The technique for saving a botched jpeg image is pretty standard, (I think). First, because you're going to do a lot to it, save as a Tiff, then mode 16 bits, curves once to get close to some kind of relatively decent exposure, de-saturate only enough to leave some color to be picked up in a replace color eye-dropper, repalce the green with a heavy blue, fiddle some more until you get a new eye-dropper readaing and saturate that until the yellow green turns red, and....voila`...one very odd picture, just what I wanted....lol
I should add that my secretary strongly prefers the full frame version. She has a much better eye than I for this stuff.
