Finally found the url for the pic. I like it. The highlights are natural for the situation. Full sun on white on a shot taken in the shade. However, you could pull them down quite a bit in both the converter and with the shadows/highlights tool. Pumping up the shadows would also reduce the saturation in John's face. Yes, there's a lot more that could be done to even out the values, but it's a nice shot as is. And John's looking pretty darn snazzy <g>. Paul
> Hello Shel, > > Glad the disks made it there in one piece. For a bada-bing type shot, > it's not bad. Not a great portrait, but as a snap to get used to the > camera operation, not bad. Seems like there is some work that can be > done on the raw image for exposure. > > -- > Best regards, > Bruce > > > Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 1:29:17 PM, you wrote: > > SB> This is the first photo I made using the istD. It was Bruce's camera, > SB> and, at the time, I'd not received much instruction on its use. I > attached > SB> a handy lens (A 50mm/2.0), pointed the camera at John, and, bada-bing, > SB> snapped the shutter. It was shot in RAW format, and, therefore, it's the > SB> first RAW conversion I've done. There's a lot wrong with this pic, so > SB> please have at it. > > SB> Thanks so much to Bruce for the use of his camera, and for the Dayton > SB> Digital Photo Lab for providing the images on CD. > > SB> http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/norcal/jf_001.html > > > SB> Shel > > > >
