Yes and it's being overly used to PP images that have no shadow and completely one dimensional. It certainly is a useful tool, but one that is being abused. What I don't understand is the fawning over these captures that look faded out, colorless, muted, and no "pop" IMHO-----ron s. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kent Messamore To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 6:47 AM Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Landscape bright background This is an extremely simple problem to resolve if you shoot RAW and use Photoshop. Dr. Brown's Place-a-matic allows you to develop two images correctly exposed for the foreground and the background. Then merge with a graduated layer mask. Kent Messamore Kent Messamore K.Messamore@... _____ From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bob Cain Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 9:58 PM Subject: [Digital BW] Landscape bright background I have been having trouble lately photographing in daylight. My foreground is sometimes severly overshadowed by the bright light of the sky. So trees look to dark, and if I increase the shutter the sky washes out? Any tips? Here are some photos that did come out but probably still need work: http://www.robertca <http://www.robertcain.info/gallery/2055781> in.info/gallery/2055781 -- Thanks, Bob Cain http://www.robertca <http://www.robertcain.info/photography> in.info/photography [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.17/505 - Release Date: 10/27/2006 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: [Digital BW] Landscape bright background
2006-10-30 by ronleshuff