Re: Proper Exposure ( wasRe: Ricky's Kung Fu Pose)

[Paul Stenquist]

Your welcome Frank. I'm going to remove the shot from my page now. If 
you're using PSCS, play with that shadow highlight tool and with the 
dodge and burn tool. They're both good friends of the photographer. 
Have you tried scanning your negs rather than your prints? Unless the 
print was truly masterful with appropriate dodging and burning 
performed, you can usually record more detail from the neg,.
On Oct 23, 2004, at 9:51 AM, frank theriault wrote:

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
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