can anyone advise me on how to improve this photo?

[dannyace]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2259/1512827161_fbe63bd178.jpg?v=0
i dont know how the effect happened ...
i think something was wrong with the camera
but the pic is an important one to restore if
we can ... thanks for any advice!

[DiddyDave]

If this was taken on film, I'd say you've got a double-exposure there

If on digital - it's weird (assuming of course you don't have a multiple exposure option on the camera you accidentally used?)

There appears to be a reflection in glass, but I presume there was no glass in front of the child sat on a grassy field? Did part of a translucent sweet wrapper cover part of the lens by any chance?

[dannyace]

it was on film and there are several other pics
taken at the same time with a similar effect ...
any ideas of how i can tame the orange-ness?!

[CT]

That looks like a double exposure I agree.

The easiest thing to do is convert the shot to mono to get rid of the cast, but the upper half of the shot is way beyond any worthwhile fix.The only practical option is to change the background completely above the line where the grass ends.

[nigelcampbell]

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/dblfix.jpg

As you can see it's pretty much beyond saving. But this is the best I can manage.

[CT]

Good effort Nigel! :clap:

[mmcp42]

^^^ *** he sed ^^^ :clap:

[InaGlo]

Yup! well done Nigel ... very nice :thumbs:

[DiddyDave]

Boring to be so agreeable - but yep - nice one Nige

[dannyace]

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/dblfix.jpg

As you can see it's pretty much beyond saving. But this is the best I can manage.

excellent - how on EARTH did you do that?!

[dannyace]

i ask how it was done because i have another two from the
same series that are affected in the same way and i was
wondering if they could be helped:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2076/1524100769_cac26509c9.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2382/1524103621_ed55e7962b.jpg?v=0

thanks so much to everyone for their help ... youve been fantastic!

[nigelcampbell]

Photoshop:
Duplicated the layer
Hue/Saturation - desaturated the layer
Levels adjustment to make the grey layer darker
Burn tool (shadows 20%) to darken the double exposure light patches in the background
Change layer settings to Darken

Original Layer:
Colour Balance - shifted the colours to remove the colour cast
Hue/Saturation - more colour correction
Curves adjustments

Flatten image
More levels - burn and dodge and Hue/Saturation

Job done

[theMusicMan]

Kudos to you Nigel, that's super suggestions there. Cheers.

[dannyace]

thanks for the tips!