Jim Davis wrote:
> Well, you have levels, curves, exposure compensation, and contrast > adjusting. Likely curves will do the job for you in that situation. > > I'll be interested in how well it performs on such an image as is > painted with light and extreme lighting. > > First adjust the histogram to spread fully, using exp comp and > contrast. then go to curves and use some points near the bottom end to > pull up your shadow areas lighter. Keep the top half of the curve > straight to leave your highlights alone. Jim, Thanks for the tips. I'll try them tonight. Curves are still a mistery to me. It will be good to start 'playing' with them. I usually mess it up when I touch them. (Blame the dumb user :-) > I'm wondering why you had to combine two images to get that one. I > assume the balance was way off between the flashlit and sunlit sky. > Should be a piece of cake. Actually, because the night was taking over and the light levels where falling down. OTOH I was getting better 'paints' using the feedback of the LCD on each exposure. So, the painted staircase version I liked the most was about 20 minutes later than the best sky I got. The original sky was very dark with the mountain almost black. So I combined the two... best of both worlds... I guess in that case not the best SW program will be able to pull any detail out of the RGB(0,0,0) :-). The image I'd like to test, is another... also simple for a veteran (I guess) but one I haven't been able to get right the way I would like. Any idea on the price of Capture One ? -regards, Gerard. * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
