Thanks Rick.
> 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 >
