In this paper, an efficient and effective adaptive recovery algorithm is presented for low lighting image. Firstly, a multiple point light sources atmospheric scattering mode is proposed based on analyzing the form of light sources, the propagation process of light beam and the influence of multiple light sources. And then, a novel image prior - bright channel prior, which is based on a kind of statistics of the normal illumination images, is also considered in the model. The satisfied results have demonstrated that compared with existing methods, the proposed method has the stronger ability of restoring the low lighting image adaptively.