Anything i can do with this picture?

[LeperousDust]

I took this with an old compact camera (Pentax Optio S7) when i went climbing up Ben Nevis, and i just came across it again, nice little memory, but i just missed catching the sun right it seems, i've had a play but i can't get it looking much better, heres the original.

Heres's my attempt.

Is there anything i can salvage from that or is it just a bit to worse for ware ?

//Edit: In retrospect i should have thumbnailed these On it now
//Edit2: Wow they look identical now, wtf? Hmmm i think i may have mixed pictures up here, not a great start....

 

[ChroniC]

Not meaning to be rude, but i dont think its worth it. What you will end up with is a dark rock background and some white in the corner. I could throw some fake sky in to it from another background, then get rid of the glare, but nothing will add any detail.

 

[ajbuk]

just av a play in photoshop........some more

 

[dirtybeatfreak]

gonna have to agree with chronic here, its not really saveable at all m8

 

[LeperousDust]

Haha, fair enough guys, all i wanted was the truth no mircales! I just liked the glare from the sun, i just wondered if there was any way i could "lessen" it a little, tbh i didn't expect much really

 

[ChroniC]

You can lessen it a little by burning in the highlights, but that only results in a big black background. You could experiement to see what would happen, like i said. Throw in a background, and maybe something else.

Heres a quick example.

Still needs a sily amount of work to get anything decent

 

[LeperousDust]

Wow, maybe i'm easily impressed, but i quite like that ChroniC! I will have a play, basically my LCD was broken on my camera (no veiwfinder either ) so i was shooting blind the whole time i was up and around Ben Nevis, and i liked that picture (its what i was trying to achieve) but i was just a little unlucky at guessing it correctly .

Cheers anyways, i'll have a futher play and see what i can make of it