Much better. But it still feels a bit pasty due to filling in
highlights with neutral tone. But you did a good job of saving what's
there. Does Boris have a RAW file? If so, much more highlight detail
can probably be resurrected.
Paul
On May 30, 2005, at 3:02 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
H,
Boris sent me a color JPEG which I fiddled with a bit. Were it my pic
and
had I wanted to invest a little more time, there are a few more
adjustments
I'd make, such as bringing down the bright area behind the guy's head
and
perhaps getting it to match the rest of the door. I had a problem
with the
fellow's hat - there was pretty much no detail in it to work with, and
it
was a balancing act to eek out as much detail as I could and add a
little
tone to the areas that were completely fried. I might have also
worked on
deepest shadows of the fellow's eyes. Anyway, here's an adjustment
from
the original JPEG.
http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/boris.html
and the original pic that Boris posted:
http://webaperture.com/gallery/photos/49886
I'd have liked to have had the RAW file with which to work. Maybe
there
was more detail in the hat and some other areas in the photo that were
pretty much fried in the JPEG.
Shel
