Underexposed and contrast issues

[Y@]

REALLY like this shot, but it does need some work to get it to look right. Need some help guys.

Reject #1 underexposed: http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... y=21548929
Reject #2 bad contrast: http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject. ... 1232213154

Any help is appreciated.

[Mr. Tops]

Well...if it's underexposed and has poor contrast, you brighten it and add more contrast.

In the manual brightness/contrast control, I raised the brightness by 10 and the contrast 25 and came up with this:

[Y@]

Thanks bud. I did brighten it and add some contrast, but I didn't add enough of either I guess. Still not the best at editing!

[Mr. Tops]

Yeah just brighten it some and add a load of contrast to your original as my edited version of it is getting pretty noisy.

[J T]

The exposure and contrast in Bob's fix looks good. W.yatt, in your second rejection, it appears you lightened it and didn't add any contrast because it looks really bland.

[Y@]

Here we go: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 242&nseq=0

Played around with the curves tool on that. Never even thought to use it last night while editing. Oh well, I was running on 4 hours of sleep the previous night! Thanks for the help guys.

[J T]

Now that POPS. Nice job.