I was in church Saturday night "on assignment"
The service started outside and everybody processed into the church with candles (what the Fire Marshall doesn't know won't hurt him). The church was dark except for candlelight and two reading lights on the piano and the ambo (sort of a lectern). Interesting - wondered if I could do something with what I was seeing.
Exposure details at the bottom of "the before". This was shot in Raw with very little adjustment made to exposure. WB was on Auto so I changed that to tungsten because, at least to me, that looked better.
![Image](http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1F8O8N50ThNbKjnC0nchwVVnY7rf_thumb.jpg)
In Elements I cropped to what I thought was a more pleasing view, Defogged (USM 20-60-0), and ran Neat Image to cut down on noise. Screwed around with levels adjustment layers, ended up trashing them and, in effect, pretty much leaving it alone. This was handheld with the body of the camera braced against the side of the pew.
I liked what I ended up with...
![Image](http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1fLq3cttCzDzPaJuHn5vHp7aLfjlz80_thumb.jpg)
...but, of course will not be offended by critical comment.
Rusty
![BigGrin :biggrin:](./images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
The service started outside and everybody processed into the church with candles (what the Fire Marshall doesn't know won't hurt him). The church was dark except for candlelight and two reading lights on the piano and the ambo (sort of a lectern). Interesting - wondered if I could do something with what I was seeing.
Exposure details at the bottom of "the before". This was shot in Raw with very little adjustment made to exposure. WB was on Auto so I changed that to tungsten because, at least to me, that looked better.
![Image](http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1F8O8N50ThNbKjnC0nchwVVnY7rf_thumb.jpg)
In Elements I cropped to what I thought was a more pleasing view, Defogged (USM 20-60-0), and ran Neat Image to cut down on noise. Screwed around with levels adjustment layers, ended up trashing them and, in effect, pretty much leaving it alone. This was handheld with the body of the camera braced against the side of the pew.
I liked what I ended up with...
![Image](http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1fLq3cttCzDzPaJuHn5vHp7aLfjlz80_thumb.jpg)
...but, of course will not be offended by critical comment.
![Cool 8-)](./images/smilies/icon_cool.gif)
Rusty