is there any hope with this image

[scotman]

i took this picture of my brother bowling a strike. forgot flash, is there a chance of fixing it. thanks


www.scotlandorbust.com/anyhope.jpg

thanks for your input

 

[scotman]

 

[Zak Forsman]

did what I could in 30 seconds...

 

[scotman]

what about the grain to it. sorry i should have clarified.

 

[Tom Marshall]

 

[Matt Grunau]

Nice one Tommy

 

[scotman]

my version


i used noise reduction, exposure, and thats about it. what were your methods Matt, etc.. thanks

 

[Tom Marshall]

Nice one Tommy

Thanks Matt. I was trying to make it look like there was actually a flash that was used so I tried to bring out the subject while keeping the back darker and keep the grain as low as I could...

You did better at getting rid of the noise in the background than I did though...

 

[Matt Grunau]

i used noise reduction, exposure, and thats about it. what were your methods Matt, etc.. thanks

I looked at the channels seperately to see which of those were the noisiest, and blurred them slightly. Apart from that, take a look:

http://www.paramm.com/anyhope.psd

 

[scotman]

thanks for the psd. ive got one more question. in your psd mat g. there is a background layer that has a bunch of brush strokes through it. any reason for that.

 

[Matt Grunau]

One of the layers has a layer mask with some strokes on it, if that's what you mean. That was to allow part of that layer to sharpen, while painting out the part of that layer I didn't want to affect the bottom layers.