I like the color rendition of the second, it's more, I think that the background could be lightened a bit to good effect, maybe half as bright as that on the first, while keeping the white flowers roughly the same brightness level. I don't know if that's possible.
Mat Maessen wrote: >On 9/2/06, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Looks a little flat to me (considering the lighting thats not >>surprising) & seems to have a yellow colour cast >>A curves adjustment to darken the foliage helps to make the flowers stand out. >> >> > >Take 2: >http://www.matoe.org/gallery2/v/tomatoe/testscans/IMGP0046_2.jpg.html > >This time, I white-balanced off of the flowers, and applied liberal >amounts of curves to bring down the background. For some reason the >JPEG always seems to have less contrast and be brighter in my web >browser than it looks in the Photoshop window. Maybe the lack of real >color management in the browser? > >-Mat > > > -- Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. --Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net