Couple by candlelight

[biglouis]

Don't know if this works. My son and his girlfriend. I had my son hold a candle holder just below the picture to illuminate their faces in the garden at night.

M8 lux35-asph iso640 1/30 f1.4

maurice-and-thalia-candlelight.jpg

[stuny]

Big -

Handsome son, very good idea, and in its current incarnation it almost works superbly. All it needs is to bring up the midtones and highlights a bit, which then shows that the young woman needs a bit of sharpening, as below. Of course if the light source was quite a bit stronger the effect would have been weird and horror film-like. But with just one foot-candle it works well.

[stnami]

Could look better in bnw, though the blown highlights under the noses, chins etc would be somewhat flat in dynamics.......... then without any substantial grain the image is a bit soft to be effective

[biglouis]

Stuart, Stanmi - thanks for the advice. Looking at the photo again - the colours are too difficult to control in post processing.

Here is a b&w version but even then I don't think this photo is really salvagable. One thing I have learned is that it requires a lot more effort to focus at 1.4 in very dim light....

maurice-and-thalia-candlelight-bw.jpg