I note that you did not invite comments and if I'm violating an rule of etiquette, please forgive me. You manipulated this image with the a skill and aptitude that I will never posses. I'm envious!. If I may say so, the image lacks the natural glow I would expect of such a scene. It has, for me, a rather drab subdued feel. I suspect, however, this was more a technical rather than esthetic challenge.
Jack --- [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 > > __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html
