On 5/30/05, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. >
Snap! That a huge improvement, I must say. Not perfect, but quiet presentable. It certainly comes much closer to what I think Boris would like to say about this gentleman, I would think. Great salvage job, Shel, and now that I can see it so much better, wonderful photo, Boris. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
