It doesn't work for me, the highlight area on the cheek has no detail in it and looks odd pulled down more than a hint. This render is better than the first attempt at bringing the highlights down.
I guess sometimes you just have to leave them blown. -Adam Paul Stenquist wrote: > I've done a third rendering. I went back to the RAW and was able to > recover more highlight detail. I then applied the shadow/highlight tool > and worked on the curves a bit. I gave it just a touch of highlight > burn as well, but not enough to cause that weird tonality that I > achieved in my first rendering:-). I'm deleting the earlier file, > because I have a magazine editor looking at the "It Happened on > Woodward" gallery tomorrow. Thanks for all the feedback. Here's the > final: > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5704742 > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net