[pure-silver] ps Re: fence row project negatives

I just figured out something interesting (to me): You can drag other people's flickr images to your own desktop and then open them in Photoshop.
So, if you drag one of the flat pictures I just posted on Flickr to your own desktop and open it in photoshop, you can open levels and see that the histogram shows all the values bunched up at one end. When you move the slider to fix that, the image improves greatly. I think what photoshop is telling me is: "you are missing a lot of the shades of gray here. You should have stretched out the histogram by placing some of the bunched up gray values in zone 4, some in zone 5 and some in zone 6. You should have metered the different leaves and then processed the film so that these values didn't all end up in one bunch at one end." Oh, okay.
It never occurred to me before that Photoshop could be used as a wet darkroom teaching tool. Now I understand why it's cool to have that histogram function on your digital camera. Are there any digital light meters out there that do that? Actually there's no need for that: if I had metered individual leaves and thought about it, I would have realized what the histogram would look like in Photoshop and that it would be a problem. 

--shannon

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