Bruce Dayton wrote: >Thursday, April 22, 2004, 12:14:19 PM, you wrote: > >MR> http://www.robertstech.com/graphics/pages/7d400839.htm > >MR> Mark Cassino (I think) suggested this shot would be better if it >MR> included all of the heron's toes. I pulled it out of the slide mount >MR> and, sure enough, the toes were there! I re-scanned it and darkened the >MR> sky as someone else suggested. > >This looks very nice. I would have liked to have a side by side >comparison to see what you did. I really like this one.
Here's the original: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/7d400839.jpg For the new version I scanned the slide at 16-bit color depth and then made two copies. The first copy I darkened until the sky looked the way I wanted it. The other I lightened until the bird looked right (and even though I used fill flash I had to brighten up the lighter parts of the bird some more). Then I resampled both files down to 8-bit color (so that I could use layers - Photoshop 7 won't do layers in 16-bit mode) and pasted the brightened bird and wire onto the darkened sky. It took quite a bit of fiddling about to get the blend just right. Finally, even though the full-frame slide did have his toes included, there was a *bit* of one toe cropped off. I added some sky at the bottom of the frame to get the extra space I needed and then cloned the end of another toe, mirrored it and grafted it on the cropped toe. (I guess that's why they call it "digital".) Pentax MZ-S, Kodak E100SW, Sigma EX300/2.8 APO with matched Sigma 2x teleconverter. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
