I took this photo as a self-portrait with my friend in 1982 on a time delay with my old film camera, Pentax MESuper. As you can see, the inside lighting (standard lamp bulbs) left a seriously red/yellow tone. The attached image is after I did a lot of color correcting. The original photo was not as in focus as I would have liked, nevertheless when I use any sharpening filters I lose subtlety in the details and more pixelization. Is there anything you can think of to improve this photo or after-the-fact fixes. I have used:
High Pass with a 50%-75% opacity on mask
Photo filter layer mask to correct what was a much more noticeable red-orange color cast
I used a little brightness/contrast but began to lose detail.
Attached is the original unretouched scan in .jpg (orig is in .tiff) and the current result of various fairly subtle edits...
What do you think?
It may be that I just have to use this in another manner (such as a piece of another photo art project) but I love the photo...
Beryl