negative to positive part 2

So after a couple of days work I am seeing good results.  The next things I have done is changes the setup a bit.  I am now shooting off the tripod.  Camera still using the same settings with one change i am now using the white balance setting to the warmer tones.  I am using incandescent for white balance.  This is proving to remove the cooler blue cast that I am seeing out of the camera after I change the curve.

Outside of that the post processing I am now going with auto tone and auto color.  I have found this works well.  I am sometimes adding a single curves adjustment which I am clipping the highlights and the shadows to give me good colouring.

So this is the result of the auto tone and auto colour.  Not bad really.  Probably need to do some slight adjustment but I also do not have the exif data to know if the flash fired or not.  I am assuming that it did fire and that is why the harsher light.

This is me trying to find the right colour tone in photoshop.  As you can see it is cooler and has blue green tones.  I am also going with the fact that I was shooting auto white balance which may also result in this cooler tone.  

More to come