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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 684830" data-attributes="member: 13196">I had a go at this one but also chose a 2nd image that I will edit when I have time. When I raised the exposure, there are multiple colors of light present. The building on the far right is lit with fluorescent light (green color cast), the building behind the couple is tungsten (golden brown color cast), and then along the bottom edge of the image is a mauve color cast. I had trouble trying to match all the colors so I decided to convert to black and white. You could also opt to use a mask and have them in color with the rest being black &amp; white.I did most of my edits in Adobe Camera RAW before heading into PCC. I used Nik Dfine for noise reduction (couldn't get a whole lot of reduction with it) then converted to black &amp; white in Camera RAW. Nik Silver Efex was going to use too much contrast during the conversion (which adds more noise) so that is why I chose Camera RAW for B&amp;W conversion. I also tweaked the noise reduction there, too.Then I went back to PCC and used a High Pass Filter mask for sharpening their faces slightly. There's going to be noise no matter what, but the exposure is raised enough to see some detail. You *should* be able to right click the image to open it in a separate tab/window. That will allow you to enlarge it the most.[ATTACH=full]300123[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hark, post: 684830, member: 13196"] I had a go at this one but also chose a 2nd image that I will edit when I have time. When I raised the exposure, there are multiple colors of light present. The building on the far right is lit with fluorescent light (green color cast), the building behind the couple is tungsten (golden brown color cast), and then along the bottom edge of the image is a mauve color cast. I had trouble trying to match all the colors so I decided to convert to black and white. You could also opt to use a mask and have them in color with the rest being black & white. I did most of my edits in Adobe Camera RAW before heading into PCC. I used Nik Dfine for noise reduction (couldn't get a whole lot of reduction with it) then converted to black & white in Camera RAW. Nik Silver Efex was going to use too much contrast during the conversion (which adds more noise) so that is why I chose Camera RAW for B&W conversion. I also tweaked the noise reduction there, too. Then I went back to PCC and used a High Pass Filter mask for sharpening their faces slightly. There's going to be noise no matter what, but the exposure is raised enough to see some detail. You *should* be able to right click the image to open it in a separate tab/window. That will allow you to enlarge it the most. [ATTACH type="full"]300123._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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