This is out of context. I was commenting on a modification to a picture
that had been posted. The original had flesh toned highlights. The redo
I commented on was inferior. I have no problem with specular
highlights. If you've seen my backlit wakeboarding pics, you would
realize that :-).
On Sep 24, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Glen wrote:
At 06:43 AM 9/8/2005, Paul Stenquist wrote:
This example is far too bright on my screen, and the contrast has
rendered her complexion almost ruddy. The highlights on her forehead
and in her hair are near white.. My display is a calibrated Apple
flat panel with the brightness set rather low to match my printer
output.
Paul
In real life, those forehead highlights are possibly "near white"
anyway. Specular highlights such as these, show the color of the
incident light much more than the color of the surface which the light
is bouncing off of.
For example, lakes and rivers often aren't really the color they
appear for this reason. The color you see is the color of the sky and
surroundings being reflected off the surface of the water. I've seen
lakes with greenish-brown water look a pretty shade of blue, courtesy
of a reflected deep-blue sky overhead.
take care,
Glen
