On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:17:19 -0400, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I found the pic. Here's a quick PS touch up with > highlights/shadows and the burn tool. Some of the soap sculptures > reveal detail. A few in the back row are too burned out for that. But > the shot can definitely be tweaked. > Paul > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2810807 >
Thanks, Paul, Your version is much improved over mine. In fact, it's pretty close to the print, so part of the problem here is my photoshop-ability, although all the exposure/developing techniques that have been discussed would have likely made a print that would have looked much better without the tweaking. Before this thread degenerates much more than it already has <vbg> I should thank you, Shel, Tom and Bill and everyone else for your thoughts/comments/expertise on what I should do in the future in such difficult lighting situations. I'm going to my lab this afternoon on my way home from a rather interesting protest that a friend of mine asked me to go shoot (maybe more on that later), and I'll discuss all of what we've been talking about here with Robert the Lab Guy. thanks again, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
