Paul, that is beautiful! Not just the marquee and the colored lights, but the sky and the architectural details of the building lit by the marquee as well. Very nice!
Rick --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Last Friday while shooting on the street at night, I > grabbed a pic of the Birmingham theater marquis. > Right off the bat I could see it was a problem. The > billboard part of the marquis was extremely bright > while the colored lights were quite dim. Of course > the unlit parts of the building and marquis were in > deep night shadow with only a touch of illumination > from the street lights and marquis lights. Overall, > it was at least ten stops variation. For capture I > shot RAW overexposing the highlights by about a 1 > 1/2 stops. Normally, I bring the highlights within > range, but I knew I'd lose a lot of shadow if I did > that. The RAW converter can recover some highlight > detail, so I was counting on that. When converting, > I pulled the exposure back down about a stop and > turned the brightness all the way up. I also > decreased the shadow depth. I'm at work now, but I > can get the exact numbers later if someone is > interested. Finally, after conversion, I used the > shadow/highlight tool to ligh! > ten the shadows a bit more, tame the highlights and > increase midrange contrast. I sharpened after > conversion with USM. I'm quite pleased with the > result. It's here: > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3421449 > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html
