Expanding Luminance of a Very dull/flat Scene

MH_Stevens wrote on 4/16/2006, 8:51 AM

Should I dynamically expand a flat/dull scene, leave it flat and dull or ditch it?

The scene is a white faced clock on a cream wall all in shadow and the scopes show a luminance range of only 20% to 50%. I have used "Sony levels" to expand the histogram but it has become grainy and looks bad. With such a narrow range of luminance is there any way that Vegas satisfactorily expand it to look natural or is a scene to ditch?

Michael

Comments

JJKizak wrote on 4/16/2006, 9:10 AM

After you expand it throw the Mike Crash Dynamic noise filter at it to remove the grain. You will crap your pants.
JJK

Paul_Holmes wrote on 4/16/2006, 12:05 PM

Yup, I've been doing the same thing with some of my family films shot with a gs250 in some very low light at times and Mike Crash's filter set at 3 or 4 has done wonders to minimize the noise.