Developing the shot: Night photography

…For the night photography shot, the lighting really paid off.…I almost had to do no processing, other than some light tweaks in RAW.…So let's check it out.…Let's go take a look at the raw image.…Now, I know what you're saying right now.…Keith, this doesn't exactly look as amazing as you were describing.…It doesn't.…But this is what RAW is for.…RAW gives us a second chance in re-exposing and re-tweaking our image.…So let's bring up the exposure a little bit.…Let's bring up the contrast, bring down the highlights,…bring up the shadows, really get that color back in there.…

And tweak the shadows a little bit more, get them a little bit brighter.…Get that contrast a little brighter, get the exposure a little higher.…Okay, I still need more saturation.…It's just not coming in correctly.…Okay.…Now for this particular shot there's one thing that I did besides all…the rest that were the standards.…I chose to try and get some of this light pink haze out of there.…And by doing that I clicked on Saturation, and…I found the tone that should be right around there.…