Hello John, It is much better now, looks a lot more stormier and it has a more dramatic look. I never tried to take such pitcures, but I realize that it is very difficult to get the exposure right. It is a subject worth studying, and many different interpretations can be made.
-- Attila Friday, November 17, 2006, 12:45:06 AM, you wrote: JC> Thanks Attila and Boris - I did indeed shoot these in RAW format, and I have JC> just gone back to the originals and re-worked them with minimum changes. JC> For the record: JC> Convert from RAW with 100% sharpness at 3008x2008 and 720 dpi., no change to JC> exposure settings. The originals were shot with 1 stop under exposure JC> dialled in. JC> Resize to 800 pixels wide for the landscape shot, 600 for the portrait JC> version, no sharpening or exposure adjustments, convert to 8bits per channel JC> and save as jpegs at 96ppi, resampled using Bicubic. JC> The results are on JC> http://members.iinet.net.au/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/IMGP1500.jpg JC> http://members.iinet.net.au/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/IMGP1501.jpg JC> and you are welcome to have a look at those, download them and experiment! JC> I do agree that, in my original conversions, I probably made them too light, JC> losing some of the drama of the originals, and also probably oversharpened JC> them. But that was 4000 images ago, and I've learned a lot since then (well JC> that's my excuse!) JC> John Coyle JC> Brisbane, Australia -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net