Hi Peter. Great shot. However, bright window light and interior lighting are quite a few stops apart. You would have some problems with any medium. However Shel is right. You can certainly make some improvements here with Shadows/Highlights in PhotoShop CS. Also when converting RAW make sure you control your highlights with the "exposure" slider, then bring up the midtones with the "brightness" slider. The brightness control in the RAW converter is not the same as brightness in PhotoShop proper. It doesn't affect the highlights. It's like tweaking the center of the RGB curve, but it's more effective and more accurate. Go back to RAW and regulate the exposure to control those highlights, work on your midtones with brightness. Then convert and do some further tweaks with Shadows/Highlights. You'll be able to effect a huge improvement. Paul
> There should be but I wasn't very successful. I'm still working on it. > I was exposing for his face which was illuminated primarily by room > light. I'm finding that even RAW is a lot like shooting slides. > > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > >Hi Peter, > > > >Nice capture, although there sure are a lot of fried highlights - table > >top, chair by the window, backs of chairs. Isn't there a way to get around > >that when working in RAW format. > > > >Shel > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. > During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings > and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during > peacetime. > --P.J. O'Rourke > >
