On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 07:04:39PM -0500, Paul Sorenson scripsit: > Graydon wrote: >> It's surprisingly effective to set the exposure between the sky and the >> valley, take a single raw exposure, process it twice or thrice with >> radically adjusted white balance (once for the sky and once for the >> valley, and maybe also once for the setting you took it on), and mush >> those two or three back together into a single image. >> >> I haven't done this for sunsets, but it works quite well to get shadow >> detail out of otherwise brightly lit scenes (leopard enclosures, train >> station colonnades, etc.) so I don't see why it wouldn't work. > > Like this? > > Original scanned from film...not art, just an example. > > http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/images/inside_out_1.jpg > > With a little post processing... > > http://home.earthlink.net/~allaround6/images/inside_out_2.jpg
That's the stuff, yes. http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ype9vXr2gIgKcVrGuzEJrQ?feat=directlink would be one of the drastically back-lit leopards mentioned above. (That particular zoo enclosure is enough to give me mad fits of wanting to go in there, so I can get a good shot....) -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
