Paul, your rendition improved it for me.... I am wondering how much my declining ability to deal with glare is affecting how I see photos like this... I have to look at it for a while to make the detail in the shadows come out...
ann Paul Sorenson wrote: >Marnie - > >Layers are your friend(s)... ;>) > >I've never had much luck w/the Burn Tool. Things seem to get a little >muddy when using it. I played w/your pix a little and came up w/this. >I'll remove it from the web w/in 24 hours...sooner if you'd like. > >http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/quickpage/marnie's_yosemite.jpg > >http://tinyurl.com/29xlct > >The background mountains were selected and copied to a new layer and the >blend mode for that layer changed to "multiply". That made the >mountains in shadow a little too dark and the sunlit ones still too >light. I hit the mountains in shadow w/the erase tool at about 50% >opacity and re-copied just the sunlit peaks to a third layer, applied >the "multiply" blend mode again and flattened the image to a new jpg. > >I think it defines the mountains in the background a little better. > >HTH > >-p > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>In a message dated 10/28/2007 8:06:58 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>Wow! That's stunning. i'm surprised you didn't show it earlier. Burn >>in the peaks in the top half, and it's a first class shot. Good work. >>Paul >> >>============== >>Thanks, Paul. I already burned them in some, not sure I can burn them in a >>lot more. They were pretty blown. Though I admit I haven't done a lot of >>layering with what I have done and I could play with it again. >> >>It's just a fantastic scene. Possibly one of my other reflection shots will >>do better, but they all require a bit of post processing. >> >>I've been holding them in reserve, because of the above. I may post another >>take later. >> >>It was incredibly beautiful, for sure. >> >>Thanks for looking. >> >>Marnie aka Doe :-) >> >>--------------------------------------------- >>Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. >> >> >> >> >>************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com >> >> >> > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
