Is there hope?

[Big]

I had no idea where to post this (you think I would by now...)
I love this shot, I know it's mostly a snapshot but when I took it, I used manual and totally spaced out and forgot to raise the exposure, SO...it came out black. I shot it in RAW but this was the best I could do between adjusting exposure, brightness, contrast, and any other thing I had in personal bag of tricks but couldn't get it to be nice. I am hoping a bored person can come along and give me a hand and maybe turn it into something I could print. It's my girlfriend and I would love to give it to her as a gift.
Thank you all so much in advance to whomever can offer suggestions or gives it a shot.
-BIG

 

[Josh66]

I don't think there's a whole lot that can be done that you haven't tried already...but for the best results - you'll need to give people the RAW...

You can host it here for free and just link to it. (Pretty much like photobucket, but for any kind of file...)

 

[Big]

Thanks Josh, I'll sign up

 

[Inst!nct]

i would say no sadly

 

[Josh66]

i would say no sadly

Well...you never know... What he did looks a lot better than I would have expected for a 'totally black' picture.

...I wouldn't get my hopes up though.

 

[Big]

Here was the original... Not completely black but definitely not printable...
I'm still working on the RAW file setup, it's giving me problems at the moment.

 

[Josh66]

I'm still working on the RAW file setup, it's giving me problems at the moment.

I've used that place I linked to a few times before for things like this, but not recently... If it's giving you too much hassle just google 'free file hosting' - there's got to be others...

 

[Big]

I was able to sign up fine but it froze when I tried loading the file so I canceled and then tried again and it told me that there was an error... Blahh I hate computers...