[pure-silver] Re: fence row project negatives

Jim   Photoshop can't fix what isn't recorded.  IF the highlights are not 
there, they are not there.

Another suggestion you might want to thing about is a graduated ND filter. Its 
a filter that has part of the filter as clear and the other part filtering the 
total amount of light.  They come in stops and if you put the line where the 
filter starts doing its job the amount of light coming in from the sky is 
reduced by the number of stops the filter is, but the rest of the image is 
unaffected.    At that point you have reduced the total difference from 
brightest to darkest regions in the scene making it easier to manage.

Now if you don't happen to have one with you, Id forget the highlights and in 
my case the likelyhood of having one in my bag at any given time is slim. :-)

"Dana H. Myers" <dana.myers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Jim Brick wrote:
> At 06:42 PM 9/22/2007 -0500, Shannon Stoney wrote:
> 
>> So, in retrospect I realized I should have not worried about the sky 
>> at all, but just let it blow out.  After all it's not an important 
>> part of the image.
>>
>> --shannon
> 
> 
> That is indeed what you should have done... then expose & develop as N+2 
> or 3  :-)  I'm really careful about this kind of stuff because I don't 
> know how to fix things in PhotoSlop.

Even with PhotoShop, there's no magic bullet.  You really want to get
the negative right; otherwise you end up with something difficult to
print or scan, even if you have a scanner that allows adjusting
pre-scan analog gain.

Dana
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